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TIL defenestration is a word that exists

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Fun Fact, defenestration is called that bc Fenster or similar are the word for Windows in central european languages.

It is basically dewindowering someone

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Fenestra is the latin word for window. Similar words are used in some latin languages as Italian, catalán or Galician.

I don’t think it would be much used in central Europe, maybe in Romanian, as it also derivated from latin. But I don’t think that would be the case for Germanic or slavic languages.

Edit: just looked it up, seems like some Germanic languages also have the same Latin root for window.

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Dutch has the word “venster” which also means window, however the word “raam” is more commonly used.

Bonus fact: a window sill is a vensterbank (literally window bench/couch)

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“Fenêtre” in French. And “defenestré/defenestration” is the direct translation. Looks to me like another word nicked from the French by the “perfides albions”.

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To Czechs it did come from German since all 3 happened while we were under controls of various german kings

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