Quotes About Etymology

***(C)(P) I WILL NOW GIVE A NEW WORD-PLANDEMIC- TO THE BOOKS OF ETYMOLOGY, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES. IT REFERS TO THE WIDESPREAD PLANS OF SCAMS AND SCHEMES OF BABYLON SYSTEMS TO DESTROY AND TO DISCREDIT ALL THOSE WHO WITH RIGHTEOUS WORKS TRY TO ADVANCE THE IDEALS OF REGGAE AND RASTAFARI.

The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and adapted.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

Words travel, because the word arctic comes from arktos, Greek for bear. Cancer comes from the Greek word for crab, karkinos. Memory, or one of its locations in the brain, the hippocampus, means seahorse. A bestiary is buried in our language.

The word emergency comes from emerge, to rise out of, the opposite of merge, which comes from mergere, to be within or under a liquid, immersed, submerged.

15. Lbers rud. (lber as adj. means free, but in the m. pl. it can also = children.—rudi, rudre, rudv, rudtum, to instruct, train, educate; a wonderful etymology, meaning lit. to get someone ex/ out of being rudis/ rough, crude, unpolished—so, gentle reader, learn Latin, cease to be "rude," become "erudite," and rejoice in your "erudition"!)

Blaze was stumped for a moment. Then he blurted, "George." "Lovely name! From the Greek. It means, 'to work the earth.'

There is a linguistic connection between the three words "myth," "mysticism" and "mystery." All are derived from the Greek verb musteion: to close the eyes or the mouth. All three words, therefore, are rooted in an experience of darkness and silence.

modern spoken Tamil is astonishingly rich in Sanskrit loan words. Indeed, there may well be more straight Sanskrit in Tamil than in the Sanskrit-derived north Indian vernaculars.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Why isn't the word "phonetically" spelled with an "f"?

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

The plural of spouse is spice.

By a false etymology they explained the word Dithyrambos as meaning "He of the double door," their word thyra being the same as our door.

I have had a suspicion all my life that in the current dictionaries and grammars often the real explanation and origin of a word or a grammatical form is to be found in something that comes in just at the end as a 'derived' form or 'exceptional' use. This I believe to be the case with the aorist; the true primitive essential aorist I believe to be the gnomic, the temporal aorist a later derivative, in fact the aorist I believe to be primarily not a tense at all but an aspect.

What surprises, etymology tells us, is what is "beyond grasp." Even the mind of the author cannot seem to keep what has been found: great poems exceed their creators. They are more capacious, capricious, compassionate, original, witty, strange, avaricious for beauty and range. The writer's life, the historical times, do not make the art. Art makes art.

Las palabras de etimología desconocida, también con ‹b›.

A esta norma escaparon algunas palabras, ya que su uso con ‹b› y ‹v› antietimológica estaba demasiado extendido, y se consideró como la forma correcta: ‹b› antietimológica: «abogado» (del latín advocatus), «abuelo» (del latín aviolus), «buitre» (del latín vulturem), etc. ‹v› antietimológica: «maravilla» (del latín mirabilia), etc.

Circula una etimología popular que asegura que la etimología de «testigo» (y cualquier derivado como «testamento») proviene de la costumbre que tenían los romanos de apretarse los testículos con la mano cuando juraban decir la verdad.

Emotion literally means "disturbance." The word comes from the Latin emovere, meaning "to disturb.

You say 'erbs, and we say herbs… because there's a fucking 'h' in it!

What is the actual plural of "penis"?' I ask. 'Is it "penises"?' 'Or it could be "peni"?' offers Cassie. 'Like fungi.' 'I think it should be "pena",' I tell her. 'Although that does sound a bit like a type of pasta.' 'Ohh, ohh, I've got it,' cries Cassie. 'You know that "goose" becomes "geese"? What if one penis becomes many "poonis"?

A.A. Greg argues, 'To print banquet for banket, fathom for fadom, lantern for lanthorn, murder for murther, mushroom for mushrump, orphan for orphant, perfect for parfit, portcullis for perculace, wreck for wrack, and so on, and so on, is sheer perversion.' Greg is considered by most scholars to be a majer dikhed.