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minus-squareComicalMayhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 年前Foetus is a weird one, I’ve never heard that before. I keep trying to pronounce it in my head but the closest I get is sounding like fajitas.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-21 年前It comes from the german Fötus oe is ö and english is a germanic language
minus-squarefeedum_sneedson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 年前Is that right? So it’s not the same as the oe in phoenix? I know in old books they used to fuse the letters.
minus-squaremitchty@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 年前If it’s right I’d want a source, the oe spelling in British English is as far as I was aware a let’s latinize thing in Britain. https://www.etymonline.com/word/oe https://www.etymonline.com/word/fetus
minus-squaredch82@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 年前Because Fetus would be pronounced with a hard e not a ee sound. oe is a variant of the french œ pronounced ee
Foetus is a weird one, I’ve never heard that before. I keep trying to pronounce it in my head but the closest I get is sounding like fajitas.
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fajitasfoetusIt comes from the german Fötus
oe is ö
and english is a germanic language
Is that right? So it’s not the same as the oe in phoenix? I know in old books they used to fuse the letters.
If it’s right I’d want a source, the oe spelling in British English is as far as I was aware a let’s latinize thing in Britain.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/oe https://www.etymonline.com/word/fetus
Because Fetus would be pronounced with a hard e not a ee sound.
oe is a variant of the french œ pronounced ee