1.the history of a particular word or element of a word. 2.an account of the origin and development of a word or word element. 3.the study of historical linguistic change, esp. as manifested in individual words. [1350–1400; Middle English < Latinetymologia< Greeketymología; seeetymon...
Last week’s blog post was devoted to the origin of the word god and the proof that it is not related to good. There, I half-promised to write about the etymology of the adjective good, though I knew that there is very little to say, not because the word lacks interest but because...
F. He didn’t believe in God and the saints. G. People took no interest in the agriculture due to them. . Too many holidays stood in the way of the agriculture.10. Which can best replace the underlined word “amplified” in paragraph 4? . lengthened . wasted . shortened . guaranteed...
2.a formal document, as a proclamation, suitably written in a calligraphic hand and often illuminated. —engrosser,n. grammalogue Shorthand,a word that is represented by a single symbol or character. graphanalysis the reading of character or personality from a person’s handwriting.Cf. graphology...
Our English word zero comes from the Arabic wordsifr. It’s the same Arabic root that gives us the wordcipher, which can mean something that was done in secret. Why the connotation of covertness? Well, it’s a long story. Making Something Out Of Nothing ...
While ‘fuck’ existed in English before then it was never used to mean rogering, instead it typically meant ‘to strike’ (which was, way-back-when, related to the word that became fuck because it’s a kind of hitting…). Anything that appears earlier is most likely to be the use ...
the word derives from the Christiandesignationof Easter week asin albis, aLatinphrase that was understood as the plural ofalba(“dawn”) and becameeostaruminOld High German, theprecursorof the modern German and English term. The Latin and Greek Pascha (“Passover”) provides the root for ...
Today I found out the origin of the word “soccer”. For all you out there who love to complain when Americans, and certain others, call “Football”, “Soccer”, you should know that it was the British that invented the word and it was also one of the first names of what we ...
B . He didn't believe in God and the saints. C . People took no interest in the agriculture due to them. D . Too many holidays stood in the way of the agriculture. (3) Which can best replace the underlined word “amplified” in paragraph 4? A . lengthened B . wasted C . shor...
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