Any ideas the root of the word TAXIDERMY?? I have had a few folks ask and just wonder if any of y'all know just how this word was born, or the meaning of the word?
I will tell you later....
I just figured a taxi hit a deer and ripped the skin right off'n it. The triver stuffed it full of leaves so's the warden wouldn't cite him for taking the meat home....
taxidermy
1820, from Gk. taxis "arrangement," from tassein "arrange" (see tactics) + derma "skin."
taxonomy
1828, from Fr. taxonomie (1813), introduced by Linnæus and coined irregularly from Gk. taxis "arrangement" (see taxidermy) + -nomia "method," from -nomos "managing," from nemein "manage"
Taxi is a Greek word meaning arrangement.
Derma is also of Greek origin meaning skin.
The word taxidermy derives from the Greek taxis, arrangement, and derma, skin; it denotes "the art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect."
Another fine example of the TBH brain trust at work!!
My version is TAXI is to pull into position, as to taxi an airplane. DERMI is as stated from dermis or skin.
Hence pull the skin into position.
And here I thought it meant SPEND MONEY??
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