• krellor
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    621 year ago

    Shouldn’t it be pictures of a warehouse first, and then on the full moon it turns into a house making it a werehouse? A werewolf turns into a wolf on the full moon, so the “were” prefix should proceed what it turns into. Unless this is supposed to be a were-warehouse.

    • Jo Miran
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      81 year ago

      A werewolf is always a werewolf that transforms from man (prey) to wolf (predator) when there is a full moon. So in this example the werehouse would go from house to wrecking ball.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      kinda, the “were” actually comes from old Germanic “wer”, meaning “man”. Werewolf just means “man wolf” lol. So I suppose a warehouse could be a human who turns into a house at full moon

    • Dojan
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      41 year ago

      Were/wer is old English for man. I think the word is related to the Gaelic word “fear” (pronounced fare), also meaning man.

      Thus a werehouse would be a man that is cursed to transform into a house.

      • krellor
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        11 year ago

        I believe you are correct. Hus is old English for house but I don’t know the equivalent to warehouse. Maybe barn, or bereærn. So a barn that turns into a house would be a bereærnhus, and a house that turned into a barn would be a husbereærn.

        And a house that turned into a man would be huswer, and the opposite a werhus. 😂