Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 24 - "The Beauty of Shasta"

Etymology What is it

Very basically , Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

The term "the etymology of a word" means the origin of the particular word.
By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family.

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Pretty fascinating reading actually. I use to have a hard time understanding why so many non-english speaking countries want to speak English. I think it has to do a little bit with how flexible and accommodating the English language is.
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From early times:

English derives from Old English (sometimes referred to as Anglo-Saxon), a West Germanic variety.

When the Normans conquered England in 1066 they brought their Norman language with them. The ruling class spoke Anglo-Norman, while the peasants spoke the vernacular English of the time.

From across the pond,(US and Canada). English has continued to be accommodating to words from many languages.
Here are a few:
buckaroo, alligator, rodeo, savvy, Colorado ,Florida. Albino, palaver, lingo, verandah, coconut, diva, prima donna, café, cinema, naive, nicotine, smorgasbord, slalom, ombudsman, sauna, adobe, alcohol, algebra, algorithm, apricot, assassin, caliber, cotton, hazard, jacket, jar, julep, mosque, Muslim, orange, safari, sofa, zero, behemoth, hallelujah, Satan, jubilee, and rabbi from Hebrew; taiga, steppe, Bolshevik, sputnik, bandanna, bungalow, dungarees, guru, karma, pundit, curry, honcho, sushi, tsunami, dim sum, gung ho, kowtow, kumquat, amok, boondocks, bundok, ketchup, and a whole slew of other words.

Many Canadian English and American English words (especially but not exclusively plant and animal names) are loanwords from Indigenous American languages, such as barbecue, bayou, chili, chipmunk, hooch, hurricane, husky, mesquite, opossum, pecan, squash, toboggan, and tomato.

Here is a wikipedia link to Lists of English words by country or language of origin

Not every word has an Etymology - - - such as Shasta; mountain in California, named for local native tribe, for whose name Bright offers no etymology.
Etymology Dictionary They also offer a Chrome Browser extension.

Shasta is also a generic Sanskrit term meaning "a teacher". The Shasta are a Native American Tribe of Northern California, they live in the region of Mount Shasta, which is the second highest peak in the Cascade Mountain range.
If you type:"shasta name origin" in google search the above is the first entry I got.

I personally like the name Shasta, that is what I named my little chihuahua at first viewing her. She was the proudest of the litter, and I thought the most majestic of them all. Like the Sanskrit meaning she taught the others how to climb the stairs, and how to fly from the living room over the one step down to another room, and she taught all the other critters to toe her line, that she was boss.

This was a tough challenge, I did learn a bit about words, a little about Etymology, and that fascinating information about Shasta. I would have to say that at least 50% of everything above was cherry picked from the wikipedia page sourced above, and from the Etymology Dictionary.

Here is the link to the IFC Challenge for the Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 24 rounds.

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