Wisdom of the Day

[marcusmarcusrc]

The Monkey may rub up against the anthill, but that does not make it an antelope.

(paraphrased from an Asante saying)

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[marcusmarcusrc.livejournal.com]

I also note that Antelope and Anthill both start with "Ant" in English... if they also have similar sounds in Asante too, that would make me wonder if there is a reason that the two words are related. Like, for example, maybe "antelope" means "loping animal that rubs up against ant-hills".

Though that seems unlikely. The best google gets me for etymology is that the word descends from "antholops" in greek, which looks like "flower-eye" and nothing to do with ants.