Gardens: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies

Seven gardenrelated words with unexpected connections. Thank you to our newest Patreon supporters: Rhiannon Evans, menai newbould, Samantha Shoecraft, James Nathan To join them, check out our Patreon: Endless Knot posters are on RedBubble: Show notes credits: Transcript: Today in Surprisingly Connected Etymologies, were taking a turn around the garden When we learn to spell as kids, we learn about the pitfalls of homonyms, words which sound the same but are spelled differently and have separate meanings, like flower the bloom and flour that you use in baking. Funny thing is, those two are actually related They both go back to bhlo, the extended ograde form of the ProtoIndoEuropean root bhel to thrive, bloom, which itself probably comes from another PIE root bhel meaning to blow, swell. PIE bhlo, which is also the source of the word bloom through