Interesting. "Balcony" comes into English from the Italian "balcone," based on "balco" (scaffold), in turn ultimately from a Germanic root related to English's own "balk." Ancient base sense of "beam, prop, ridge." - ThreadSky

mashedradish.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Interesting. "Balcony" comes into English from the Italian "balcone," based on "balco" (scaffold), in turn ultimately from a Germanic root related to English's own "balk." Ancient base sense of "beam, prop, ridge."