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In “room and board”, board refers to food coverage. The root is “bord” which is old English for table. But this word actually predates English, I believe from proto Germanic as it is also cognate in other Germanic languages. The only reason I learned this is because I’ve been learning Norwegian for several years, where table is “bord”.
Many things leap from the page when you learn a new language. For example, admittedly strange that this never dawned on me, but I simply never even considered that “maybe” is “may” and “be”. That is of course obvious, but it has always just been in my lexicon as the whole word and its meaning. When I realized the Norwegian “kanskje” was literally “kan” and “skje“ or “can happen” my mind was blown.
I've been learning Esperanto, which is basically just all loanwords from different European languages, one thing I'm a little embarrassed to have learned that way is that "Peking" as in Peking Duck, is just a different/older spelling/transliteration of "Beijing" since it's "Pekino" in Esperanto
Been eating Peking Duck for years, never really stopped to consider where or what Peking was until then.
In Dutch we call the city Peking also. Never knew why it was Bejing in English, figured maybe that's what the Chinese say for it
Old US person here, we used to call it Peking too. I think (haven't looked it up, but it was what I was told at the time we changed it) it's a less-accurate version from Westerners who didn't really listen or asked the wrong person, and Beijing is closer to how the people who live there pronounce it.
Yeah, there are other recognizable ones from the same postal romanization, like Nanking.
Vi lernas Esperanton! Kiel vi faris?
Mi komencis per duolingo, sed nun mi plejparte nur legas vikipedio en Esperanto.
Mi instruas min mem jam ĉirkaŭ 3 jarojn, mi ankoraŭ ne estas tute flua, sed mi progresas.
Alone -> all one.
Oh shit, that's a good one!
Oh that's a great one. Bord is also table in Irish.