[frivolity] I just had an etymological realisation

[kaberett]

The standard German for cream is Rahm.

The Austrian for cream is Obers.

It has only just occurred to me that that's as in ober as in "upper" or "above" as in the floaty bits.

Comments

[kaberett]

I am utterly failing to track down the etymology of Rahm and might have to ask my mother to look in Kluge when she gets home, but Sahne (the other standard German cream-word) is apparently (eventually) from the Latin sagina, which at least makes some sense.

[vass]

"Feasting, nourishment, corpulence." Hmm.
*promptly yoinks 'Sagina' for if I need a Latin-derived character name in a culture where fat is admired*

[kaberett]

... A CULTURE. SOME CULTURE. ANY CULTURE THAT JUST... HAPPENS... TO BE LYING AROUND.

:D

[vass]

IT'S NOT LYING AROUND, ALEX, OBVIOUSLY IT FLOATS TO THE TOP. OR PERHAPS IS ADDED TO THE BREW FOR A TOUCH OF SOPHISTICATION*.

[*Noun, definition 7.]

WORLDBUILDING! \o/

[azurelunatic]

*snerk*

[alexseanchai]

*dying*