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by -O-uknow on March 30th, 2007

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Is the spelling of "HISTORY" a Freudian slip meaning "HIS STORY"?

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  • by unknown on March 30th, 2007

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    This is the origin of the word history. I think it proves that the word history isn't a Freudian slip. 1390, "relation of incidents" (true or false), from O.Fr. historie, from L. historia "narrative, account, tale, story," from Gk. historia "a learning or knowing by inquiry, history, record, narrative," from historein "inquire," from histor "wise man, judge," from PIE *wid-tor-, from base *weid- "to know," lit. "to see" (see vision). Related to Gk. idein "to see," and to eidenai "to know." In M.E., not differentiated from story; sense of "record of past events" probably first attested 1485. Sense of "systematic account (without reference to time) of a set of natural phenomena" (1567) is now obs. except in natural history. What is historic (1669) is noted or celebrated in history; what is historical (1561) deals with history. Historian "writer of history in the higher sense," distinguished from a mere annalist or chronicler, is from 1531. The O.E. word was þeod-wita.
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    1481, "ornamented with scenes from history," from story (1). Meaning "celebrated in history or legend" is from 1725.

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  • by Lemonyellow Di Vintage on March 30th, 2007

    Lemonyellow Di Vintage

    It's always his story. Or the governments story you could stay. The great evil said - "History is the memory of the states"

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  • by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on March 30th, 2007

    Mirage V2.0 AWOL

    The word history precedes Freud, so I doubt it.

    EDIT:
    via Wiki:

    The term history entered the English language in 1390 with the meaning of "relation of incidents, story" via the Old French histos, from the Latin historia "narrative, account." This itself was derived from the Ancient Greek ἱστορία, historía, meaning "a learning or knowing by inquiry, history, record, narrative," from the verb ἱστορεῖν, historeîn, "to inquire."

    This, in turn, was derived from ἵστωρ, hístōr ("wise man," "witness," or "judge"). Early attestations of ἵστωρ are from the Homeric Hymns, Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes' oath, and from Boiotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either "judge" or "witness," or similar). The spirant is problematic, and not present in cognate Greek eídomai ("to appear").

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History#Etymology

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  • by Shine_The_Light on March 30th, 2007

    Shine_The_Light

    Ah so that is why the past has been so male orientated. The word makes sense now! It should be renamed as an equal word of some format, like allstory.

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  • by Carluck on March 30th, 2007

    Carluck

    I agree . History depends a lot on the historian. The interpretation of history in the East will be diff frm the inetrpretation in the West.

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