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This has lead to me learning that bimbette and himbette are both words.
baguette, bagel, bagest
Bagaga
People in this thread: Hey, I’ll do etymology in the wrong language, it’s all the same anyway.
I would be so pissed if my bus ticket from Newark to Paris was rendered worthless because I couldn’t buy cigars by the bague.
Eichhörnchen implies the existence of a German mega-Squirrel.
Le maximum du baguette, c’est la blague.
Mosquito implies the existence of a far larger Mosqo.
a mosquito is just a smaller mosque
That reminds me of a lame oneliner I came up with years ago:
… but no cigar sir! Not even cigarette, don’t even mention cigarillo!
One thing to know about French language, is that whenever there is a grammar rule, it only covers at best 50% of cases and the rest are exceptions to the rule.
For instance:
- cigar -> cigarette
- trompe -> trompette
- (Cool, looks like we have a rule here)
- baguette, must be a small bague, right ? WRONG ! It’s a small bâton.
Strikingly similar to English
Baguette is genuinely a diminutive, but the French is a loanword from Italian bacchetta “little stick,” from bacchio “stick.”
Funnily enough, “bacteria” also means “little stick” due to the shape of the first ones seen under a microscope, and the word shares the same etymological root (reconstructed as *bak- in proto-Indo-European), but in Greek – bakterion is a little staff, baktron is a staff or stick without the diminutive.
So Bacteria indeed implies the existence of Baktron
“Yeah, I got a staff infection.”
What is a Bagu and where do I get it?
How dare you hide this filth deep in the comments. This is fp worthy.
Dunno, but a Bague is like a Hague for food criminals.
Baggu is a brand of reusable bags…
All bags are reusable if you don’t discard them
It’s like Pokemon. Baguette, Bagetto, BAG.
Egg, Baconegg, Fullenglish.
