More from PIE than latin right? if i'm not mistaken, by the time latin was a thing animal meant "living thing [that breathes]" and breath would have been respirare. You have anima, but it's more like life/soul as i understand it. But I speak spanish as a second language so most of my latin knowledge is working backwards from that so I could be off base.
ah right on, probably true both ways when you go that far back. It gets a little fuzzy once you get into PIE territory but even anima can have connotations to wind/air so I assume they probably had some spirtualist/animist view of air/wind/breathing as an important/vital part of life. Anyway I was just curious cuz I like words and stuff.
![Hmm, I wonder what "animal" means in latin. [CW: sinophobia]](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Z8ggxM1hZn.png){kind=link}
More from PIE than latin right? if i'm not mistaken, by the time latin was a thing animal meant "living thing [that breathes]" and breath would have been respirare. You have anima, but it's more like life/soul as i understand it. But I speak spanish as a second language so most of my latin knowledge is working backwards from that so I could be off base.
Wait, the word for animal comes from pies?!
I'm guessing it's from the Cornish dialect?
get off chapo, dad
I just googled "animal etymology," don't trust me
ah right on, probably true both ways when you go that far back. It gets a little fuzzy once you get into PIE territory but even anima can have connotations to wind/air so I assume they probably had some spirtualist/animist view of air/wind/breathing as an important/vital part of life. Anyway I was just curious cuz I like words and stuff.
Understandable, and very neat