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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•17 days agoFoetus 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 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈linkfedilink3•edit-217 days agoIt comes from the german Fötus oe is ö and english is a germanic language
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-217 days agoIs 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•edit-216 days agoIf 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-squaredch82linkfedilink1•edit-217 days agoBecause 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.
It 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
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fajitasfoetusBecause Fetus would be pronounced with a hard e not a ee sound.
oe is a variant of the french œ pronounced ee