They say that sometimes knowing where we come from helps us on the journey to where we're going. To me, that captures the essence of history. And we all walk together, sharing it all but experiencing it in our unique ways. Even families. Especially families.
The word comes from the Latin 'familia' meaning servants and morphed in meaning to include more and more of the household, then morphed some more to discard the people it originally denoted, to finally reach the meaning it has now. What I find particularly interesting is that before 'family', it seems we had the word 'hiwscipe'.
'Hiwscipe' means nothing to us now, just an odd combination of consonant and vowels. Till 400 years ago, it brought the same feeling to hearts that the word family does to us now. Can you imagine that? How things change. The new replaces the old and is so quickly forgotten. Even words. Especially words.
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