Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/July 3

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goropism n (linguistics)
  1. A hypothesis, similar to the one originally propounded by Goropius which is now discredited, that some attested or modern language such as Dutch, Hebrew, or Turkish was the original language of human beings.
  2. An absurd etymology proposed as part of such a hypothesis.

The Dutch physician and linguist Johannes Goropius Becanus, from whose name the word derives, was born on this day (23 June according to the Julian calendar) 505 years ago in 1519.

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