Etymology

Etsian

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The story

From Etsy + -ian (“one from, belonging to”); Etsy was named in June 2005 by co-founder Robert Kalin as a nonsense word inspired by the Italian phrase eh, si (“huh, yes”), which he repeatedly heard in the film 8½ (1963) and erroneously transcribed as etsi.

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