WATER TANK SUPPLY UNITS

5/1/2022

The word tank in reference to the armored fighting vehicles is unsurprisingly predated by the word tank meaning "large receptacle," but the story connecting them is rather interesting. When the armored tank was invented in 1915, it was provisionally described as a "Caterpillar Machine Gun Destroyer" or "Land Cruiser," but defense officials in the United Kingdom were concerned about the name being leaked to enemy intelligence, so, for secrecy's sake, they were labelled as "Water Tank Supply Units", which was shortened to "tank" because it rolled off the tongue better. The word for "receptacle" came to English in the mid-seventeenth century through Portuguese tanque, which referred to any kind of "liquid container." That was most likely picked up by traders from either the Gujarati word tankh or the Marathi word tanka, both meaning "cistern" or "reservoir." Finally it probably all traces back to the Sanskrit word tadaga-m, meaning "pool," but is also a small faction of linguists who think that the Indian words actually come from tanque, and the Portuguese word is actually from Latin stagnum, meaning "pool" as well.

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7/18/2022 10:02:05 pm

Hi there,

I love this website, but unfortunately this comment is more of an attempt to ask you something specific. There is a 'request a word' feature, but I did not want to just put a word in there without explaining my question in more detail.

The reason is my question concerns a minority language here in the states, namely Cherokee. I recently began working for a company, Elohi Studios. The word 'Elohi' roughly translates to Earth in the Cherokee language, but it strikes me as odd that it is so similar to the word 'Elohim.' I've asked a speaker of the language if there is a connection, but they don't know.

Given that the Cherokee language was oral and without a written form, their written language is anglicized. I know there is the Cherokee-Sequoyah Syllabary, a written form designed in the 1800s to better capture the language by the Native Americans themselves, but it is largely unknown to most people. The Syllabaric word for Elohi is written ᎡᎶᎯ.

My question is this - how likely do you think it is that the word 'Elohi' is a derivative of Elohim - meaning the colonial linguists who made the written form of Cherokee simply appropriated a generalized word for God - one with which they were familiar - for the word 'Earth?'

Forgive the impertinence of posting a non-related question on the blog - I love all your blogs, they're all great. Anyway, hope the question/comment makes sense, any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

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WATER TANK SUPPLY UNITS

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