Stop, you’re gonna make me nux!
Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days agowent 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.
Jerkface@lemmy.world 3 days ago
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 4 days ago
-ulus according to Wiktionary:
From Proto-Italic *-elos (whence Faliscan -𐌄𐌋𐌏𐌔 (-elos)), from Proto-Indo-European *-elós, thematized from Proto-Indo-European *-lós.[1] Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz and *-ulaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.
harmbugler@piefed.social 4 days ago
I don’t think the nuclear engineer wants the furries to know about ‘little nut’