According to Buck, words for "world" in some other Indo-European languages derive from the root for "bottom, foundation" (such as Irishdomun, Old Church Slavonicduno, related to Englishdeep); the Lithuanian word ispasaulis, frompa-"under" +saulė"sun." ...
from PIE*pro-mo-, suffixed form of*pro(seepro-), extended form of root*per-(1) "forward." The Germanic sense of "moving away" apparently evolved from the notion of "forward motion." It is related to Old Englishfram"forward; bold; strong," andfremian"promote, accomplish" (seeframe(...
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a如 old一词,中国人历来就有 “尊老敬老 ”的传统。 “老”在中文里表达尊敬的概念,如老祖宗、老爷爷、老先生等。 “老张 ”、“老王 ”透着尊敬和亲热, “张老”、“王老 ”更是尊崇有加。 If a old word, the Chinese always has “the respect for elders reverence for elders” tradition. “Old...
— Edmund Frederick John Carrington, Confessions of an Old Maid (1828) Amative Definition: relating to or indicative of love How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… Elizabeth Barrett Browning came up with eight ways to express her love in her sonnet; we offer six ways, or rather...
Do words likefjord,reindeer, andiciclemake you think of ice-bound, snowy places? It might be because they are all related to Old Norse. Old Norseis the term given to describe the ancient language of Scandinavia—and the parent to the modern-day languages of Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Nor...
backarapper a firework made from firecrackers folded together to explode one after the other (a dialect word from the English Midlands) bade old past tense of 'bid', pronounced 'bad'; bade farewell said goodbye baldric a shoulder-belt for carrying horns, swords, etc baleful malignant, filled...
Senile:Senileused to refer simply to anything related to old age, so you could have senile maturity. Now it refers specifically to those suffering from senile dementia. Meat: Have you ever wondered about the expression “meat and drink”? It comes from an older meaning of the wordmeatthat ...
In with the old, out with the new, but how old is too old for slang? Let's look at some recent slang words that would be an epic fail to use today.
London was referred to by the Normans as the "Land of Sugar Cake" (Old French: pais de cocaigne), an imaginary land of idleness and luxury. A humorous appellation, the word 'Cocaigne' referred to all of London and its suburbs, and over time had a number of spellings: Cocagne, Cocka...