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Malgas@beehaw.org 13 hours agoFun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nuculus, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.
Morphit@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
went further back lol
Latin: Nux - nut nuculus - diminutive of nut (“little nut”)
Proto-Indo-European: kneu - nut
I can’t find much on where the -culus suffix originated, which seams to be the the place we would want to look if trying to tie the pronunciation of nuclear to the earliest etymological root.