@arumnatzorkhang: Evolution of animal names. #linguistics #language #etymology #History #english

Randomuserhandel :

Who else thought it would be swan?

shawnha :

not me trying to guess each one as early as I can

apeputashit :

yeah wtf is a steer

peakhumanchannel :

What the hell’s a steer?

tanya.dax :

I definitely thought Raven was going to be Crab for about half the list.

Francisco :

BCE? Before what? What event?

Chloe(⸝⸝⸝ᵒ̴̶̷ᴗᵒ̴̶̷ꕤ)🦑🪥 :

Will our English change over time?

AgnesNutter :

Kristina Hans 🥔 :

It’s like a game of telephone lol

KylieH148 :

does anyone else get a little thrill from guessing the animal before the final version?? or just me?

wunderling :

Modern German: Schwein, Stier (although the emoji shows a female, so it‘s rather Kuh), Wolf, Fuchs, Rabe.

JL⚽️ :

?

Mackey :

I was guessing pretty well until fox. Went downhill from there

Matty Daddy :

bro abt to summon the ancient one lmao

💙 mn_beekeeper 💙 :

Why is this so satisfying?!?

user1902941306 :

świnia and wilk is almost the same, but the raven is turned into wrona in Polish which means crow

Jax :

You somehow only come up on my feed when I’m high - incredible

The creature :

I am NOT calling that a SwíHnom in 5000 BCE

CatLord :

Swan! It’s swan! Oh…

Kaleb :

The way I confidently yelled CRAB on raven…

user8787013663530 :

You should make a card game out of this!!!

the.copy.ninja734 :

MORE, MOOORE

D K :

in Lithuanian - Tauras, Vilkas, puksas words are used even today

Brico :

as a german i really like this

BasicSuperhero :

Huh, we more or less got to the current pronunciation of wolf real quick. Relatively speaking.