Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Nauts and Naught II
Now that I have studied the etymology of the word "juggernaut," I am pleased that I did not include it alongside Argonauts, astronaut, cosmonaut, psychonaut, aeronaut, and Reaganaut. Juggernaut is derived not from some kind of sailors on a Jugger (or a ship, the Jugger), but from the Sanskirt word "Jagannath," which has an altogether different meaning than the English suffix -naut.

In your face, Ki-El! ^_-

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