Complementing the map of 'banana' reaching Europe from New Guinea, here's one that went the other way: the Germanic word 'soap' reached Aboriginal Australian languages before the English set foot in Australia.2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Gamal tras Tebe & Lakda - how four words for camel spread across the Old World over the last few thousand years [OC]1mo ⋅ chotchorton ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Horses may have been replaced by cars on the roads, but the words are actually (distantly) related [oc]3yr ⋅ nkiserpuebio ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Gamal, Ustras, Tebe & Lakda - how four words for camel spread across the Old World over the last few thousand years [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
The interesting origins of the word 'money' in various European languages1mo ⋅ Tankyenough ⋅ r/etymologymaps
[OC] Wheel and Rickshaw are related - *kwekwlos is the only word I know to have spread to the same language via separate East and West routes, essentially circumnavigating the globe2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
How finns from around Finland say I. The formal form is mina and default informal form is ma1yr ⋅ cnylkew ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Horses may have been replaced by cars on the roads, but the words are actually (distantly) related [oc]3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
How a word for banana from Papua New Guinea spread with ancient trade routes, becoming the scientific name for the banana genus. The Trans-New-Guinea word is also the source of the regular word for banan in languages like Turkish, Somali and Amharic2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
The Serbian 'bicak' and the Navajo 'beesh' both mean 'knife, and may reflect a common Wanderwort origin, spreading across the Northern Hemisphere over the last few thousand years [OC]7mo ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Kuru - a potential ancient pan-African Wanderwort, meaning tortoise [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Descendants of Middle English [doxteɻ] 'daughter', in accents of Britain and Ireland [OC]3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
European words for 'weasel' (the animal) that derive from words referring to women [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Spread of the word for '[Cooking] Pot' through the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Geographic expansion of the Indo-European word for 'three', according to the new Caucasus homeland theory [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Have you ever wondered what 'hound' and 'сука' have in common? [4672 x 2514]1yr ⋅ Tequorie ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Realizations of Proto-Slavic *-ti (the ending of the infinitive) in descendant languages7mo ⋅ Volzhskij ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Chess Piece: The Bishop ♟ in various European languages, @languages.eu3yr ⋅ languageseu ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Word for “you” (plural) in different caribbean creoles and its etymology1yr ⋅ andreaparracino1 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Name for Greece in European and surrounding languages (by u/feinoqw )3yr ⋅ Shink3nthrU ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Grammatical gender of the word cat when its natural gender is unknown.3yr ⋅ porredgy ⋅ r/etymologymaps
How to say library in different languages by [u/Shevek99]. Why doesn’t English use bibliotech or a variant for library like almost every other European language?9mo ⋅ poweller65 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Word for “blind” in the languages of italy (Standard Italian: Cieco) - sources in comments1yr ⋅ andreaparracino1 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Diffusion of the Ancient Egyptian word for 'date' (the fruit) across much of Africa [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
As early Indo-Europeans spread across Eurasia, they borrowed words for unfamiliar (and sometimes, familiar) animals from the pre-existing languages. Map shows some of these words in each Indo-European branch. [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Comes in traditional North Germanic di\lects. hTird person singular present of the verb come. [OC]1yr ⋅ sensiblebicycling ⋅ r/etymologymaps
I think it fits here. Like maps with more explanation, but still is interesting how cintron is surrounded by lemon.2yr ⋅ lukasmilan ⋅ r/etymologymaps
[OC] Current and Former Dutch Place Names all over the World [12511x6051]1yr ⋅ Tequorie ⋅ r/etymologymaps
24 English words that all trace back, through Latin, French & Porto-Germanic, to the same original word spoken in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language c6000 yrs ago5yr ⋅ treskro ⋅ r/etymologymaps
The word for the bishop chess piece in various european languages4yr ⋅ VarysIsAMermaid69 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Map of Native American etymologies for horse. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.5yr ⋅ AJgloe ⋅ r/etymologymaps
A map of all the English translations of the 32 counties of Ireland3yr ⋅ S_O_Maoilriain ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Map - The Netherlands place names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed with attention to etymology & sound evolution processes) [OC]3yr ⋅ topherette ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Etymologi/translations of the major river systems originating out of the Tibetan and surrounding plateaus.2yr ⋅ jimi15 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
England & Wales place-names rendered into High German (morphologically reconstructed with attention to ultimate etymology and sound evolution processes)4yr ⋅ topherette ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Origins of the words for university in various East and Southeast Asian languages, color-coded by root language. Apologies in advance for errors, inconsistencies, and that hastily drawn internal linguistic border in China [OC]4yr ⋅ nehala ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Etymology map for the name New Zealand in European languages [2496x2664] [OC]4yr ⋅ k6lvatu ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Some examples of English words that derive from other languages spoken in the British isles5yr ⋅ Iowhigh3 ⋅ r/etymologymaps
What the natives of each Southeast Asian country call their country1yr ⋅ bitchyswiftie ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Anglicising Europe: If the Anglo-Saxons had been invited to dinner (everywhere). See comments for more4yr ⋅ topherette ⋅ r/etymologymaps
I tried to map all the languages of the world. (Many) places are off but I think I did a pretty good job in Europe and Asia. What do you think?4yr ⋅ Iukayotlpintakin ⋅ r/etymologymaps
