Anonymous User asked: Why does gingerly mean carefully but ginger is 🫚
which is related to the words "gentle" and "gentleman" and "gentry"
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in reply to @bethposting's post:
that's also a latin word! but that one means something like "beget" or "sire" or "produce". i think they're both ultimately from the same root as "gene" and "kin", which is proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁ meaning "to beget/to birth"