• LwL@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Through that logic I’d always figured unanimous stems from “without animosity” and the word animous just got lost to time, which would make un-animous the more sensible pronunciation. But it seems that while they do share a common etymology, it’s not “un” as in negation, but rather “un” from “unus” meaning one, with both sharing “animus” meaning mind.

    I also found out that animous used to exist as a synonym for animus at one point.

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      8 months ago

      The moral of the story; the only thing more ‘absurd’ (read: perfectly explainable, we’re just silly creatures) in linguistics than pronunciations…is etymology.