• BarqsHasBite
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    4 days ago

    I’ve learned that

    Hospital = Krankenhaus = Sick House

    Ambulance = Krankenwagen = Sick Wagon

    It actually makes sense.

    English has “plaything”, which is kinda similar.

    • Karyoplasma
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      Krankenhaus - die Kranken (the sick persons from krank meaning sick) and das Haus (the house). A Krakenhaus could maybe be found at an aquarium as it’s a house of octopuses (release the kraken!). Octopuses are more commonly called Tintenfisch tho, which literally means ink fish.

    • @[email protected]
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      Fun fact the term Hospital while derived from hospitality is mutated for context due to the Knights Hospitallers. They built quite a few outposts that quickly became associated with medicine because pilgrims are stupid.