Episode 107: World

In Old English, the word "world", or weorold , did not refer to a place. It was a compound word comprising wer , meaing "man", and ald , meaning "age". "World" literally meant "the age of man", and in many of its earliest usages, it's more closely related to a man's "lifetime" or "lifespan" than the earth he inhabits. We also look at some unlikely cognates of "world", all of which share etymologies related to "manliness".

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Episode 107: World is an episode from Words for Granted by Raymond Belli.

This episode is 17:40 long.

This episode was published on May 22, 2022.

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