Yes!!! I was amazed when I learned this. Also, dandelion comes from French “dent-de-lion”, which means “lion’s tooth”.
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! Nice one!
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I have always cultured a curiosity for word and phrase origin too.
Our words have power...
it’s important to know the meaning
behind the ones we choose!
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I so love figuring out how the words (things ideas...) come to be

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Without knowing the French association I would have thought someone is looking at a kid and describing the motion from "see"ing them to "saw" them ...
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