TIL the word "apron" comes from the Old French word "napron." Over time "a napron" became "an apron."

3 years ago by bhmnscmm to c/til

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CautiousYellow 13 points 3 years ago

orange is the same: "a norange -> an orange", hence "una naranja" in Spanish.

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BraveSirZaphod 13 points 3 years ago

Rebracketing is the standard linguistics term for this phenomenon, in case anyone's curious.

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madsen 11 points 3 years ago

Similar thing with "a nickname", which came from "an ekename".

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ALERT 3 points 3 years ago

an a.k.a name

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sepiroth154 3 points 3 years ago

So nickname is a nickname for an ekename, gotcha.

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YurkshireLad 6 points 3 years ago

Check out the YouTube channel "Rob Words", as he covered this. It was news to me too!

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Haus 5 points 3 years ago

Similar: 'Nuncle' came from 'mine uncle'.

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can 4 points 3 years ago

I'm getting Tumblr folk etymology vibes from this.

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scott 1 point 3 years ago

Nope.

It comes from the French 'oncle', from the Latin 'avunculus'.

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Hank 4 points 3 years ago

So should we short it down to pron?

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