John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Interesting. "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." 120
John Kelly @mashedradish.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Here's a little curmudgeonly gem from the old OED on the etymology. (Samuel Rogers was a prominent English poet of his day.) 120
