Lucky Thirteen Never mind how to pronounce it, or even spell it, but can you guess what this 23-letter word means? I started to say that frigga is not slang for friggin’ but considering the overall definition, maybe I shouldn’t dismiss that so quickly.
Frigga, besides a genus of jumping spiders (shiver), is the Norse goddess from whom we derive the word Friday, or day of Frigg.
Three and ten, kind of an awkward way of saying thirteen, but it works, so now it makes a little more sense in the Greek:
tris meaning three;
kai meaning and;
deka meaning ten.
Most of us are familiar with the word phobia from Phobos, the personification of Fear from Greek mythology.
So there you have it: Friday, 13, the fear of... Frigga tris kai deka phobia.
Hopefully nobody reading this suffers from it or hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words.
Frigga, besides a genus of jumping spiders (shiver), is the Norse goddess from whom we derive the word Friday, or day of Frigg.
Three and ten, kind of an awkward way of saying thirteen, but it works, so now it makes a little more sense in the Greek:
tris meaning three;
kai meaning and;
deka meaning ten.
Most of us are familiar with the word phobia from Phobos, the personification of Fear from Greek mythology.
So there you have it: Friday, 13, the fear of... Frigga tris kai deka phobia.
Hopefully nobody reading this suffers from it or hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the fear of long words.
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