Dutchhoer, Old High Germanhuora"prostitute;" in Gothic only in the masc.hors"adulterer, fornicator," also as a verb,horinon"commit adultery"), probably etymologically "one who desires," from PIE root*ka-"to like, desire," which in other languages has produced words for "lover; friend."...
, from pro "before" (see pro-) + penser "to think," from Latin pensare "weigh, consider," frequentative of pendere "to hang, cause to hang; weigh; pay" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin"). Usually in the legal phrase malice prepense (with French word order) ...
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Balalaika (Russian: балала́йка, [bəlɐˈlajkə]) (Tartar origin) A triangle-shaped guitar-like musical instrument with three strings.Bridge game (from the Russian word, biritch, which in its turn originates from a Turkic word for "bugler" (in modern Turkish: borucu...
” We have reclaimed these words in spite of their negative associations. Starhawk noted in The Spiral Dance that even with all its negative connotations, women should see the word Witch as a way of reclaiming women’s power and that men should see it as a way of finding the divine ...
FromUnami Delaware/kələkːəˈnikːan/, "mixture" (c.f. Ojibweginiginige"to mix together something animate with something inanimate"),[2]fromProto-Algonquian*kereken-, "mix (it) with something different by hand".[22]
In the first example, the author chooses the vaguer word “pro-life” to describe the very concrete “anti-abortion” position as highly positive. In the second example, labeling the coronavirus pandemic with the word “Chinese” implies China’s fault in the pandemic. 2.2. Automated identificat...
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,ab, which hardly seem like any of the others -- they areSemiticlanguages. Similarly, "daughter" in English (with its mysterious "gh") compares toTochterin German,θυγάτηρ,thugátêrin Greek, and ,dokhtarin Persian. Latin uses a different root. Meanwhile, "daughter" in Arabic is...
to go along with,” which is of uncertain origin but perhaps related to the root oflong(adj.). Senses of “be the property of” and “be a member of” first recorded late 14c. Cognate with Middle Dutchbelanghen, Dutchbelangen, Germanbelangen. Replaced earlier Old Englishgelang, with compl...