Pter

Til : Pterodacrylus and helicopter share a linguistic ancestry

Wait before you hear about the helicopterodactylus.
- Ah yes, bane of the T-🦕
And so do mastodon and mastectomy (not a joke).
Son of a bitch...

ROFLPTER

In Czech we call it "vrtulník" (propeller thing), which I find kinda hilarious now that I think about it.

The german word for aeroplane is similar, "Flugzeug" directly translates to "flying thing". Helicopter is also fun, "Hubschrauber" translates to "lifting screwer".
- I don't think it means "thing", but rather "Gerät" as in 2 c):
  https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Zeug
  It evolved from a word for "pulling"
- Now I am curious as to what the Chinese characters in their word for helicopter mean, since panda is "bear cat," owl is "cat headed eagle," and peacock is "thunder chicken," IIRC.

Pter Prker, the amazing Spderman

It's actually a play on Latin: "arker" as a bastardization of "Arachne" meaning spider + "peterp" which roughly translates to "exceptional person"

So it should be quadpter then

Considering pteron is greek and quad is latin, it should probably have been tetrapter. Which actually rolls off the tongue better.
- Plus sounds like a dinosaur

Yeah like pterodactyl

Joyful types go helicopterodactyl.
- Spiraling wind finger?
  Is that from Naruto?
Or Archeopterix!

In Lithuanian, we escaped the madness by making up our own name for it:

Sraigtasparnis = sraigtas (cog) + sparnas (wing)

Not to be confused with the word for autogyro:

Malūnsparnis = malūnas (mill) + sparnas (wing)

Which is not interesting unless you are writing some alternate history with aircraft in it and want to call them something with no Greek or Latin.

Pter the horse is here.

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This is my favorite fun fact to tell. Please don't spread the word too far or it stops being amazing

Yeah, the comic adds absolutely nothing to this very tired "fun fact", it's not a successful meme format at all imo.
- But look at her face. That's adorable.
Left to right. The two big panels are the first and last panels respectively.

See also "ornitho" (relating to birds) and "pter" (wing) creating the term ornithopter for a heavier than air vehicle that flies by flapping its wings. Famously seen in Dune, but I think also back in the day people actually tried to make them, long before aircraft existed.

Yeah that's mad