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Etymology
'Robot' comes from forced labour
Czech writer Karel Capek used robota, meaning drudgery, in his 1920 play about artificial workers.
Eponyms
'Diesel' was an engineer
Rudolf Diesel patented his compression ignition engine in 1892, and his surname became the fuel it burned.
Portmanteau
'Podcast' merged iPod and broadcast
A journalist coined podcast in 2004. The device it named is discontinued, but the word outlived it.