The drifting etymology of 'noon'
Channel: Alex Hartman Adams
Date: 27/06/2022

0:00 Drifting words
0:26 What time is noon?
1:51 Roots of nine
2:38 Monastic hours
4:42 Unreliable timekeeping theory
5:39 Seasonal elasticity theory
7:01 Hungry monks theory
7:53 Common mealtime theory
9:07 Noon of the night

Noon
https://www.etymonline.com/word/noon

Nine
https://www.etymonline.com/word/nine

Monastic hours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_hours

Indo-European language family tree
https://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=196

Sun at noon
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_at_noon.jpg


Alex Hartman Adams
Linguistics and English Language Consulting
https://ahaling.com