'Homosexual' and 'heterosexual' aren't as different as they look.
The parts 'hom-' and 'he-' stem from the same Proto-Indo-European root. It meant "one".
From this root we've also got the word 'same'.
Click my new infographic to learn all about these words and their histories.
The box on the right features additional derivatives of this root in Latin, Ancient Greek and Germanic.
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@yvanspijk Oh. I've just had a realisation about some word/phrase in my mother tongue.
So, "the same" in Polish is "taki sam". Which - when you think about that - is a little bit confusing, as the primary meaning of the Polish word "sam" means: single, alone, lonely. To make it even worse, the word "taki" is sometimes used to emphasise the meaning of the next word, so, the phrase "on jest taki sam" without any extra context means "he's so lonely".
But the same phrase used in different context, let's say, women discussing men in general, and one man in particular will say "on jest taki sam" to express "he's the same as others".
BTW, for "lonely" it's better to use "samotny". As "sam" better matches the context for "single", "alone". But "lonely" fits as well.
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@agturcz Nice! :) The word 'sam' is indeed related to the words in the graphic, and in many Slavic languages it got the meaning of "lonely; alone" beside "same".
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@yvanspijk Well, literally "sam" means "only one" :)
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