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?

Karoliina
@kskehu@mementomori.social

@chrisp@c.im @infobeautiful@vis.social in French cuisine is feminine, so it would be la cuisine with a definite article, I guess lakozy could be derived from that