• @Sorgan71
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    -110 months ago

    not true, squid come from squyrde

    • Flying Squid
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      810 months ago

      I don’t know what “squyrde” is, but it doesn’t show up in any etymological source I’ve ever seen.

      For example:

      squid (n.)

      “ten-armed marine mollusk, cuttlefish,” 1610s, a word of unknown origin. Klein’s sources suggest it is a sailors’ variant of squirt and so called for the “ink” it jets.

      https://www.etymonline.com/word/squid