Tuscany - Italy (von www.to-tuscany.com)
River flowing.
If it glitches again I’ll take it down.
types of girls : pretty french words edition 🕊
aurore (dawn); stays up late, doesn’t say their deepest thoughts, quiet but their presence is warm, disappears to recharge, likes love letters & mornings
bisou (kiss); gets crushes easily but may fear intimacy, loves soft things, cares a lot about what others think, wants love more than anything
sourire (smile); always tries to be happy, friends with everyone, prefers movies over books, talks a lot, radiant smile, hard-working, gives the best hugs
ange (angel); daydreams a lot, loves fashion & aesthetics, wishes they were a flower, loves affection, pure-hearted, moody, glowy skin and hair
espoir (hope); seems calm, takes long showers, strong-minded, loud laugh, likes pet names & cliché things, will be there for you, loves new beginnings
sirène (mermaid); scared of being alone, carefree, loves the moon, bilingual, mood changes like the weather, sad most of the time, a bit mysterious
Honey in European Languages
Albanian mjaltë
Basque eztia
Belarusian мёд
Bosnian med
Bulgarian мед
Catalan mel
Croatian med
Czech med
Danish honning
Dutch honing
Estonian mesi
Finnish hunaja
French miel
Galician mel
German Honig
Greek μέλι
Hungarian méz
Icelandi chunang
Irish mil
Italian miele
Latvian medus
Lithuanian medus
Macedonian мед
Maltese għasel
Norwegian honning
Polish kochanie
Portuguese mel
Romanian miere
Russian мед
Serbian душо
Slovak med
Slovenian medu
Spanish miel
Swedish honung
Ukrainian мед
Welsh mêl
This thick golden fluid has its differentiations not only when it comes to colour, taste and herbal origin, but even the very name of it has numerous variations, not all of them belonging to the same language family.
Linguists who study the Indo-European theory estimate that the Proto-Indoeropean word for honey was melit, which gave the Sanskrit word madhu, the Greek μέλις, the Latin mel and eventually words like μέλι(ττ)σσα or mellifluous. Hence the names mel, miel, miele, med, and all their variations.
So, what happened to the Northeners? It seems that the northern branches of the IE language tree ( ie. the Germanic branch, unlike the Slavs who remained loyal) followed a different path right from the beginning. They’d name honey after the colour of it, using the PIE word for “golden y ellow”, which is k(e)neko. That eventually evovled to the ancient Germanic huna(n)go, which became honung in Old Norse, and then hunig in Old English. Between Old English and now, the letter “g” following an “i” or an “e” sound has tended to drop away or turn into a “y,” meaning that the Medieval hunig became our modern-day “honey.”
