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Linguistic Constellations

posted by Jason Kottke   Mar 04, 2020

Linguistic Constellations

Linguistic Constellations

Illustrator Jerry M. Wilson has drawn a series of constellations that explore the etymology of the constellations' names and related words in several languages. So for example, "Taurus" is Latin for "bull", which is "toro" in Spanish & Italian and "tyr" in Danish. And then you also have associated words like "toreador" ("bullfighter" in Spanish) and "teurastamo" (Finnish for "slaughterhouse")...a constellation of words related to "Taurus".