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trusting someone with your money and calling it optimism with paperwork.
means temporarily giving someone money or resources with the expectation of repayment, usually with interest as the price of that trust.
from from old english laenan, related to loan and leave — the same root that gave us belief itself, which tracks, since credit literally means belief in latin.
oldest evidencemesopotamian grain loans predate coined money entirely.
interest originlivestock lending literally bred interest through offspring.
word overlapcredit comes from latin credere, to believe.