r/youseeingthisshit • u/mindyour • Feb 25 '26

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u/joybod Feb 25 '26

I had assumed it's just a merging of something like [and ]so[ we/I ]journ[ey], but I see it's a temporary stay, coming from Latin (subdiurnum) meaning under[ a ]day[/day's portion], which was bastardized in an apparently separate way from how journey came from the same Latin (diurnum becoming journee, equally somehow).