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nomlas101 | 15:16 Mon 18th Oct 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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Where does the word 'heart' originate from?
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From the Old English heorte. The spelling changed to the current ~ea~ form around the middle of the second century as analogy with words like heat and stream, but pronunciation was unaffected.
16:50 Mon 18th Oct 2004
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Old Engish "heorte" Old High German "herza" (German "Herz"), Greek "ker", "kardia", Latin "cor". This seems to be a common but changed word in a lot of languages. Remember, for many centuries, people's appreciation and learning of language was entirely aural. The sound of the word was transferred. The Greek and Latin words sound similar, and when taken further afield the corruption took place on the consonants before the vowel sounds.
16:56 Mon 18th Oct 2004
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"Second century", Indie?  Dost thou mean the twelfth?  English wasn't English in the second century.
12:40 Tue 19th Oct 2004
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No I meant the middle of the 16th Century. No idea why I wrote "second".
18:25 Tue 19th Oct 2004

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