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# defenestration
is a good word. Cant believe there is a specific word for something so uncommon as being thrown through a window...
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:17, archived)
# it's one of mr b3th's favourite words
we learned all about it on a trip to Prague castle.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:18, archived)
# they loved their defenestrations there
it's one of those words that must've been introduced in order to stop a profession losing its credibility. i imagine a bunch of historians sitting around going "look, we can't go on calling it 'the prague thing where they threw everyone out of the window,' people will think we're idiots"

see also mathematicians and the word "cardioid." it's "heart-shaped" you nerds!
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:35, archived)
# cardioid - I'd never heard that before
that's fab!

I guess that's along the same lines as 'ovoid'
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:40, archived)
# somewhat illogically
fenestration is the arrangement of windows in a building... and not throwing something into a window...
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:21, archived)
# wouldn't that be
infenestration or interfenestration or something?
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:23, archived)
# isnt 'fenetre' french for window?
One of the few things i remember from french at school
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:26, archived)
# it is aye
from Latin fenestra
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:28, archived)
# hey I get to dig out one of my exciting trufax
as a linguist the following interests me, though may not interest others.

Most German words come from a different root to English ones. We get many of ours from Latin.

However, the word 'Window' is completely different to the Latin word 'finestra' - which is where the French get their word 'fenêtre'. But the German word is 'Fenster' - one of the few they get from Latin.

In my warped and miserable world, this is an exciting Trufax.

You may now continue as you were.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:32, archived)
# aye, this is indeed true
window is Old Norse
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:33, archived)
# ooooo
are you one them there linguaphiles too?

*glees*
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:38, archived)
# Oooh, interesting
Dutch for window = venster

although it's slightly archaic, we use raam more often
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Thu 23 Apr 2009, 11:45, archived)