Was slightly mindblown whenl discovered this.
The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “helil” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.
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wait WHAT
Aderinthemadscientist: Wait, so… does -copter come “from” helicopter?
108echoes: Yep! This is called rebracketing. Another famous example would be"-burger": the original food item is named after the German city, (Hamburgl+(er], but semantically reinterpreted as (ham]+[burger].
“Isch ess ein Berliner” (Irgendsoein Präsident, oder so ähnlich)
Psssh wir wollen nicht schon wieder eine Diskussion über Dialekte lostreten. Hoffen wir mal, dass die ostdeutschen das hier nicht finden