My interest in words and word origian comes from two wonder teachers in high school, English and Latin.
On day one of my classmates swore in class and instead of punishing him, she made him look up the source of the swear word....From there it bacame a class project.
What reminded me of this. Is ther terminology you’ve given for words meaning other that black or white.
Not sure if one of the students or the teacher gave us this gem. The “n” word, as it’s been called, comes from “Niger” which means black. It was a term that the slaves gave to the unpure blacks...those who had either willingly or were forced to bear the young of the master or his chosen “stud”.
Since many of these were indeed related to the Master, they became the house slaves and received special treatment. They were greatly resented by the field workers, thus the word became an insult, hurtful.
I this is accurate I wish O REALLY would have his word-smith make it public knowledge so that it’s sting would be removed. No one should be hurt by words.
Lots of luck. O'Reilly isn't gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole.