I’ve been asked many times what’s the difference between a crow and a raven, and my answer was that crow is the species in general and raven is a male specimen, something like sheep and ram. However, I never felt perfectly satisfied with this answer, until one day I found out that the Icelandic word for raven is “hrafna”, and then it clicked – they come from two completely different languages, raven is the Norse “hrafna”, and crow is the Latin “corvus”.<\/p>\n
I apologize in advance if you learned about this in kindergarten or elementary school, but it’s actually new to me. \ud83d\ude42 The same goes with the names of the days of the week, where some are obvious, but I didn’t really get the etymology of others until recently:<\/p>\n
Sunday – Sun I’ve been asked many times what’s the difference between a crow and a raven, and my answer was that crow is the species in general and raven is a male specimen, something like sheep and ram. However, I never felt … Continue reading
\nMonday – Moon
\nTuesday – T\u00edw<\/span> (old English for Norse T\u00fdr), the one-armed god of war
\nWednesday – W\u014dden\/Wotan (old English for Odin)
\nThursday – Thor
\nFriday – Freya
\nSaturday – Saturni dies, Latin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"