Tuesday, January 24, 2006
The derivation of dodo.
Further to this post about the Portuguese roots of words, Pynchonoid says:
The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters. It took its name from the Portuguese word for "fool", and was hunted to extinction within 200 years of Europeans landing on Mauritius.
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