AwesomeInPerson t1_ja2ncwq wrote on February 26, 2023 at 11:25 AM Reply to comment by blakerabbit in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged Yep, in German it's Walross which literally means whale horse. (Wal is whale and Ross is horse, even though the more common word for it is "Pferd") Permalink Parent 253
AwesomeInPerson t1_ja2ncwq wrote
Reply to comment by blakerabbit in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Yep, in German it's Walross which literally means whale horse.
(Wal is whale and Ross is horse, even though the more common word for it is "Pferd")