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This comic started out as an attempt to make pornography. It degenerated into a sex comedy pretty much immediately

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[–] m_f@midwest.social 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That is a fun fact! Looks like sheath in English is a cognate with the same etymology

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Middle English shethe, "close-fitting case or covering for a blade," from Old English sceaþ, scæþ, from Proto-Germanic *skaith- (source also of Old Saxon scethia, Old Norse skeiðir (plural), Old Frisian skethe, Middle Dutch schede, Dutch schede, Old High German skaida, German scheide "a sheath, scabbard"), perhaps from an extended form of PIE root *skei- "to cut, split," on the notion of a split stick with the sword blade inserted.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sheath

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

and vagina is just the Latin word for sheath

something about men and their swords, I guess