58008@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 天前How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?message-squaremessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up179file-text
arrow-up179message-squareHow did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?58008@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 天前message-square47linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·23 天前Probably the same way you got pineapple from Ananas.
minus-squarehakase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-223 天前So the proposal is that “bicycle” was replaced by something completely etymologically unrelated and that has never been productively used in English? I think that’s unlikely.
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 天前Eh, it’s a fruit that looks like a pinecone and white people are really unimaginative when naming things sometimes. Pineapple
Probably the same way you got pineapple from Ananas.
So the proposal is that “bicycle” was replaced by something completely etymologically unrelated and that has never been productively used in English? I think that’s unlikely.
Eh, it’s a fruit that looks like a pinecone and white people are really unimaginative when naming things sometimes. Pineapple