• lugal@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If you are serious, it originally means “an eye-witnessing, a seeing for oneself”. Referring exclusively to dead bodies came later.

    • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Damn you’re right, I stand corrected!

      The explanation I gave came from my teacher at the university in my linguistics class, better double check everything I guess!