Posted: Dec 20, 2020 5:54 am
aban57 wrote:Why are there 2 different words for pig (the animal) and pork (the meat taken from that animal) ?
It's not the case for other animals we eat from.
Evolving wrote:There are. Sheep/mutton; cow/beef. Evidently the "food" words come from the French, the "animal" words are Germanic; but I don't know why that is.
Bit delayed in responding to this, but thanks to the Norman invasion, French was the court language for some time while the general populace continued using Germanic based vocabulary. Over time, those words anglicized and filtered down to the proles.