• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Those are two different words though. If the OP had said they were related I wouldn’t protest because they likely are. But they stated it as a fact, which we do not know to be true.

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      8 months ago

      In french, gargoyle is “gargouille”. The verb to gargle is “gargouiller”. Used in a sentence, the word is the exact same. “Il se gargouille”/“He gargles”.

      I don’t know, to me it seems pretty clear they’re related.

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        8 months ago

        Related yes, “comes from” (the claim made here) we don’t know that for sure