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While we're on subjects, Vagina comes from Latin, in which it means sheath, scabbard, something you put a sword in, you get the point, skipping a few steps, that comes from the Aramaic Dianoia (mind) and Taman (hide, conceal), which resulted i…
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@layakhan I don't believe that for a sec, but what a story! & if it is true, it's a wonderful example how truths choose the guise of lies :)
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let’s not stop prematurely, and you find taman meaning "keep, preserve": http://biblehub.com/hebrew/2934.htm — vagina: keeper of knowledge
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We do not know which of the many possible meanings the people of old would have meant. Your interpretation is just one of many.
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@drak Intriguing. I suppose the fun part of etymology is that at a certain point, it becomes a sort of "choose your own adventure" thing. It's also interesting to look at the roots of words as they're combined and passed through different cult…
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Or the meaning might have differed by context, as in "trusted computing", where "trust" means "treachery".
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@drak That's true. That is one way to try to interpret it. I think what it might be, though, is that the distinction between "hiding" and "keeping" would not necessarily translate to our concepts of those same words. This is pure speculation, …
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@drak But I do think the original Latin meaning that defined vagina as a physical sheath for a sword does have its roots in the idea of hiding the mind or hiding knowledge. The Latin word for mind is "animo", which can also be translated loos…
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