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Re:Five common English words we don't know the origins of–in... by nine_k on Monday July 08, 2024 @02:33PM (#40908008)
Since sexual themes are heavily regulated or prohibited in most cultures, such a word may fail to exist, or to survive intact through the millennia. I suppose that local metaphoric and slang words, and contextually-altered expressions (like the generic "daydream" narrowed to that sense) replace it in many / most cases.

Same with words for copulation (highly restricted) and even for wooing / courting, which are also pretty universal activities since times immemorial.

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