🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 1 year agoAnon watches lord of the ringssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1399arrow-down19
arrow-up1390arrow-down1imageAnon watches lord of the ringssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareamiolinkfedilink7•1 year agoWell, way back when, wizard just meant wise man (wise + -ard). The connotation with magic is centuries older than Tolkien, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoActually, ard is a negative suffix, as in drunkard, sluggard, etc… Wizard meant wise guy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI meant actually as in fun fact, not correction, sorry.
Well, way back when, wizard just meant wise man (wise + -ard). The connotation with magic is centuries older than Tolkien, though.
Actually, ard is a negative suffix, as in drunkard, sluggard, etc…
Wizard meant wise guy.
Actually, that’s where it comes from anyway.
I meant actually as in fun fact, not correction, sorry.