The ending “ard” meant being in a specified condition.
Coward- in an easily cowed condition, Dullard- in a dull condition, Drunkard- in a drunk condition, Wizard- in a wise condition
Bard
Thanks, I love me some entomology facts
Board
Thanks, I love me some etymology facts :3
What about bastard?
Bass - born in fishy circumstances
Bastard is ‘having been conceived on a bast’, old French word for ‘saddle’. I take it to mean something like not having been conceived at home with the usual suspect (the wife) but elsewhere.
I like that the bottom one is standing in a town in Skyrim, a world that also has the spell casting kind of wizards.
As someone currently actively modding Skyrim, your Skyrim will not look like that unless you’re applying, at minimum, 2 Gbs of mods and modding utility programs. Not least to change the architecture of a town. And to make the stone textures not look like pixelly mud, and the mud textures not look like pixelly shit.
as an older Australian (60) it was used in my youth by older people to mean very good at eg “they are a wizard at maths”. I haven’t heard it being used for decades though.
