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Etymology
'Salary' comes from salt
Roman soldiers received an allowance connected to salt, called salarium from the Latin sal. Salt was so valuable it helped preserve armies and empires alike.
Etymology
'Quarantine' means forty days
Venetian ships waited quaranta giorni, forty days, before docking during plague years. The number became the word for isolation.
Etymology
'Nightmare' has nothing to do with horses
The mare in nightmare was an Old English demon believed to sit on sleepers' chests. Mare the horse is a separate word entirely.