Interesting Words (moved from Games)

[Pacifica]

Note the older meaning of "baffle" ("cheat", "deceive", mentioned in the etymology):

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[Pacifica]

Who in all the blazings of hell knew that Fr. "trop", It. "troppo" are cognate with Eng. "thorp" (and presumably Dutch "dorp")?

troppo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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[Pacifica]

The first meaning of the noun is... interesting.

ربض - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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[Pacifica]

Sociology Professor Documents Slang Terms He Overhears His Students Using and It's Hilarious.

Students won't care who much you know until they know how much you care. That's how high school teacher James Callahan won the utmost appreciation of his students. The Massachusetts educator at Lowell High School

thelanguagenerds.com

 

[Pacifica]

"Worldlet"—a little world. @kizolk 's coinage.

 

[kizolk]

Good word, but not mine!

worldlet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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[Pacifica]

I had never seen it. I guess it didn't occur to me to check because it sounded too good to exist (if that makes sense—it probably doesn't, lol).

 

[Pacifica]

soue — Wiktionnaire, le dictionnaire libre

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[interprete]

The first meaning of the noun is... interesting.

ربض - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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It’s not as bad as it seems, apparently it is derived from the more general meaning of whatever or whomever you can find refuge, help, rest, solace, etc. with, (hence the basic meaning of resting place), so chiefly your wife, but it can also refer your family and friends. According to LL.

 

[kurwamac]

In Exodus 12:23, the word glozed over as 'destroyer' [הַמַּשְׁחִית/ ham-maṡℏīṭ] is patently related to the root משׁח 'annoint', cognate with messiah.

I don't think so. The word in Exodus comes from שׁחת, not משח.

 

[Pacifica]

Have I or someone else mentioned this one before? I think yes, years ago, but it may not have been on this thread.

absquatulate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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[Pacifica]

dree - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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[Glabrigausapes]

Another supposed cognate is a Balto-Slavic word for 'friend', cf. R друг, Li draugas.

 

[Pacifica]

Another supposed cognate is a Balto-Slavic word for 'friend', cf. R друг, Li draugas.

Hm, interesting semantic shift.

 

[Pacifica]

traffic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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The etymology.

 

[Pacifica]

Who knew the etymology of "mob"?

 

[Bestiola]

Another supposed cognate is a Balto-Slavic word for 'friend', cf. R друг, Li draugas.

Ah, we had a very popular cognate here in the communist times - "drug" aka "comrade"

 

[Bestiola]

And of course, the most famous comrade was "drug Tito"

 

[Pacifica]

jaffa - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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An interesting semantic shift from sense 1 to sense 2.

 

[kurwamac]

Who knew the etymology of "mob"?

I'd have thought most anglophones on a Latin forum. At least, I'd hope so.