Brutkey

Information Is Beautiful
@infobeautiful@vis.social

Fascinating evolution and migration of the word "kitchen" from the latin word "cocina" and all other variants.

(by Reddit user: u/LlST- )

A linguistic map of Europe showing the etymology and evolution of the word "kitchen" across various languages. The map uses arrows to trace how different words spread and evolved, with influences from Latin (cocina), West Germanic (kukina), and Slavic (kuxnja). Red arrows indicate Romance language evolution, while orange arrows trace Germanic and Slavic developments. Insets show related words in Zulu, Japanese, Malagasy, and Tagalog.
Chris P
@chrisp@c.im

@infobeautiful@vis.social “lakozy” (Malagasy)seems far from the others. Is there a story there?

Daniel Böhmer
@dboehmer@ieji.de

@infobeautiful@vis.social I liked the map. Still I can't help it but recognize that the letters ÄËÖÜ with diacritics seem to be unavailable in the font used and named letters are displayed in another unmatching font. This phenomenon is called #Zwiebelfisch in German.