A drill turns and thus bores a hole
into whatever it is you’re drilling. And etymologically this make sense. Drill
comes through Middle Dutch drillen “to drill” from Germanic *thr-, ultimately from
the Proto-Indo-European root *terə- “to rub, turn”. This comes into Greek as tornos “tool
for drawing a circle or lathe”, which was borrowed as Latin tornus producing the verb
tornare “to polish, fashion, turn on a lathe”, becoming Old French torner “to turn away or
around; cause to turn; change
, transform; turn on a lathe”, giving us English turn. Oh, and
drill in the other sense of “instruct in military exercise” is the same word, from the idea
of the “turning” manoeuvres they make.
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Seems like tornado must be part of that story
Etymology is sick, thanks!
Then why is "dreschler" woodturner in German?
I love linguistics
Tourner in French, with the u
Bro slow down 😅
Nuh uh