Rodents and Small Mammals in Early Medieval England 

Indeed 😂 "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't"

Pidgeon with the head of a horse and the body of a horse.

Behold the mighty Esquilax!

I think I’ll call it a bowl of petunias.

Having a whale of a time I see

I have been wondering about the "cat" thing as well - also with the squirrel, being an ekekatten (oak cat in Norwegian) or Oachkatzl (little oak cat in bavarian dialects), though the oak part might just be (as discussed in the video) a "new" interpretation of the older root.

@@johanneswerner1140 I've never heard eikekatt before, where do they say that? Can't seem to find it in any dictionaries. Are you sure it's Norwegian and not Swedish? (or even danish, though i'd assume that'd be ege-)

Dholes might be an interesting option. A fox-sized dog that squeaks like a mouse could fit the description of 'a mouse the size and shape of a fox'

Borrowed from French

@@goombacraft Latin: Sciurus. French: Ecureuil. O.Eng: Acweorna. OHG: Eihhorn. It is safe to say that by the French composition of the word, that Ecureuil takes after the Germanic term rather than an adaptation of the Latin otherwise why have ''Ec'' prefix? Dutch takes after the West Germanic ''Aikwaurna'' where nowadays it is Eekhorn.

"Eichhörnchen" in German - with "eich" referring to oak, so acorn is not that far off.

@@m_p_furo1 I knew this word, but didn't put eich and oak together. Seems obvious now.

Acorn just means Oak's Corn and Corn is just another Word for Fruit/Food. So yeah it checks out. @@m_p_furo1

Note that while mūs is an indoeuropean word that was inherited by both Latin and proto-germanic, rattus was not a native Latin word; it was borrowed from Germanic languages into Medieval Latin. Classical Latin used the word mūs for both mice and rats.

@@tim1724 Ah thank you thats good to know. Btw even the Bengali word for mouse is "Mā'usa". Looks to me even "more germanic" than the latin or reconstructed ancestor "mūs". But in general it really seems like a well conserved term.

I remember that too! But I didn't remember the source so I was suspicious of my memory lol

They released a mouse from a cage they'd rigged to open from under some elephant poop. The elephant was very surprised by this - I'd wager it was more surprised by the mouse leaping out of a piece of poop very close to it.

Unspittlewise, a “spit” is a pointy outspiking bit of sand in English. German “Spitzmause” minds me of ‘spikemouse’.

I did som googling around it, and found it came from old Norse ígulkǫttr. ígul is a sea urchin, and kǫttr means cat. So sea-urchin-cat . Again, I'm not a linguist, I just found some random info online.

@@knaperstekt7953 this would make sense. It hadn't clicked for me that -kott might be from köttr - thanks! That also makes me wonder if there was a period where ígul (or some proto-Norse form) could be applied to both hedgehogs and sea urchins, as if they were seen as sea and land "urchins". -köttr perhaps being added to clarify it to be the land animal.

Same for beaver, 'afanc', shrew, 'llyg', draenog 'hedgehog'. Llygoden bengron for vole, probably just means round-headed mouse

You captured a rodent and dropped it off in the woods? What kind of rodent was it?

@@wedding2710 don’t worry, I outfitted him with a Swiss army knife, a mini Bergen, and a half-sovereign in case he needed to buy anything from the natives. He texted me recently to let me know he was well.

When used as a verb, yes. The adjective has first syllable stress. (Edit: Originally I said noun instead of adjective, now corrected)

The adjective has first syllable stress. As does the noun " 'fre/quency". But not the verb, as noted. Is the American stress pattern different?@@dingo137

A lot of small rodents do. IIRC a study of hamsters found that mothers only ate their babies if she had more babies than she had teats, the explanation being that one baby per teat means all of them can drink enough milk to grow up, but two or more babies having to share one teat would cause both of them to starve.

Where?

Exactly. Rivers and lakes names could be also interesting imho

I second this

Ooh there’s a great story behind the name for yaupon holly, “ilex vomitoria,” The guy that named it played Jumping To Conclusions with a misunderstaning of the anecdotal evidence he had, the wiki says more if you’re interested. I should write it out here for anyone who might read this but maybe Simon will explore it in a future video if he likes

Some info is incorrect tho - technically, every single language has been written down by its creator, as there is no way to create a language without writing the words on something until they are all learnt to fluency and then taught to others, and, the sounds didn’t change on their own, the words ware modified on purpose by the dudes that created the newer languages by modifying a previous language or multiple previous languages, and most words aren’t loanwords, because Germanic languages come from Latin, so they have many words that were not modified or that were only modified a bit and still look like the Latin word that always existed in the Germanic languages, and this is very obvious in Old Norse, which has so many word endings and words and letter combinations that are also found in Latin and words that sounds just like a Latin word like mæra / inum / mar etc! Proto European which is the first proper language ever created (with thousands of properly constructed words and grammar) was the only language that was created from scratch by a dude a long time ago, and it came with the first proper writing system ever created, which inspired all other languages and writing systems, either directly or indirectly, and then other dudes created new languages by modifying it, and others created new languages by modifying the languages that were modified from it, and so on, and it was always the type of dude that decided what a group of ppl did that created languages, and he created the language as a way to control that group of ppl (also creating the language barrier) and to make sure that the ppl from that group would understand the orders and do what he said - every language creator normaIly wanted to make the new language as different as possible or at least slightly different or different enough to be another language with different spelling rules and different diphthongs and different word endings etc, which explains why there are languages that are very similar as well as many languages that are very different! Germanic languages are the prettiest and most refined languages ever, with the most organized aspect as the dudes that modified / created them had a lot of natural artistic talent - the Norse languages were created by raider / warrior dudes and inspired by nature, and one can immediately feel those battle vibes if one looks at Norse / Icelandic etc, as each language reflects the personality of its creator, and the other Germanic languages and the modern Celtic languages and Latin etc were also inspired by nature!

I am learning all Germanic languages and my current levels are... - intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

Was just about to comment the same.

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Yeah I´ve wondered about that word learning swedish on duolingo. It is btw "broddgöltur" in icelandic: "Spikehog"

@@MrKorton Well, I can tell you that "brodd" is a Swedish word for "spike" (now almost exclusively used in the plural, "broddar", for spiked shoe covers to prevent slipping on ice), and "galt" is a Swedish word for an adult, male pig. "Broddgalt" could easily have been the Swedish word for "hedgehog".

Does the Swedish endfast “-kott” have anything (also) to do with the thirdeye/pineal? hedgehog/igelkott cud haps = ‘headoga’ (“oga” is seemingly the Swedish for “eye” therefore headoga/headeye/pineal). An ugly sundred of “-cott” (cottage) is “-cote”, therefore the NWO could cote one’s ‘headoga’(pineal) with anti-terrorist chalk.

@@mytube001 Broddgalt, that´s cool. Yeah spiked shoe covers are also called broddar/mannbroddar ;)

Nutria, now a household word around the world! Considering their obscure beginnings, it’s a wonder. I see them frequently here in Louisiana, and foxes are larger than they are, in terms of leg length and body length, but I’ll give you this, they are very large rats.

*due

@@dubfox1691 Duly noted. Thanks!

@@tim31415 lol!

Also the word mystery derives from μυς and the modern greek word for mouse, ποντικι is also used for a cut of beef (muscle).

Rats were my first thought

The exact same thing happened in German. Except that since the 19th century or so, it has become increasingly common to use Eichhorn in the diminutive, so Eichhörnchen. One funny coincidence is that Eichhörnchen is an extremely difficult word for English native speakers to pronounce, while at the same time, German native speakers have a hard time pronouncing the English word squirrel.

@@fritzp9916 Eekhoorntje. Let them try to figure that one out ;)