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- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
- meaning - Is it true that etymology is the leading tool to understand . . .
The etymology of a word will usually give you an idea of a meaning the word once had That is no more its true meaning that any other meaning it may have had in its history
- etymology - Is the alleged original meaning of the phrase blood is . . .
I recently read that the phrase "Blood is thicker than water" was originally derived from the phrase "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb", implying
- Indian comes from Italian Spanish gente in dios (God-like people . . .
The Italian etymology of India fails to mention anything about "people in of God" Italian Wikipedia says Gli antichi Greci si riferivano agli indiani con il termine Indoi (Ινδοί), il popolo dell'Indo "Indo people population" Indo is derived from "Sindhu" meaning large body of water No trace of God there whatsoever
- etymology - If you can be discombobulated, is it possible to be . . .
That etymology’s a little off: the prefix is from Old French des-, from Latin dis-, a prefix derived from Latin dis 'apart, asunder' The original Latin sense survives in such words as disbud and dismember, in which the prefix is basically 'remove'
- What is the etymology of tiger team? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
A friend is part of a "tiger team"; I read over Wikipedia to learn some examples of its usage The (albeit incomplete) Google Books snippet of the oldest wiki reference "Program Mana
- etymology - Why is pineapple in English but ananas in all other . . .
In Spanish, it's also called piña The etymology of "pineapple" and a few other words is nicely illustrated at Europe etymology maps
- etymology - Why do people say buck for a dollar? - English Language . . .
The word has been in use in this sense since 1748 according to etymonline I would guess most currencies have changed their designs quite significantly since then, and the term likely didn't come from any design on a coin at all The fact that there happens to be a buck on the 1 rand coin is probably either coincidental or reversely causal: they could have put the buck on the coin because a
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