Mating
SciShow Tangents
What Is the Meaning of Mate?
The word mate started out as a noun for like a buddy and specifically someone who you eat with, which I think is funny because it's a similar root as mate and meat are similar words. And then we started using around the 1500s, the word mates to describe animal pairs as well. We just imprinted that onto animals as we do when we study animals. We're like, ah, they mate too. Well anyway. Do we do we do we have anything etymological to discuss? So I couldn't really figure out what we use before mate in scientific literature, beget, siring. Like those are the old the old English words. Yeah.
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