Interesting Words (moved from Games)

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
What’s interesting about marhaban?
 
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Etaoin Shrdlu

Guest

At a guess, the etymology, but I'm sure Pacifica will be along soon enough to tell you what she intended.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
At a guess, the etymology, but I'm sure Pacifica will be along soon enough to tell you what she intended.
Yes, the etymology. The word for "welcome" is based on a root with the idea of wideness, which seems fitting: think about welcoming someone with arms wide open.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
I thought it was more or less clearly referring to welcoming the guest into one’s own spacious house, considering the culture.
 

Iáson

Cívis Illústris

  • Civis Illustris

aut iānuā patente?
 
 

Terry S.

Aedilis

  • Aedilis

  • Patronus

Location:
Hibernia
What if your house isn't spacious? Poor people can be hospitable too.
The space for strangers in tiny Irish cottages was a place by the hearth to bed down for the night.
 
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Etaoin Shrdlu

Guest

In Arabic, a watch (timepiece) is an hour.
The German word for clock is Uhr. The normal word for 'hour' in German is Stunde, but Uhr is a loanword from Latin in this sense. The way to ask what time it is in German is wie viel Uhr ist es?, which presumably inspired the comic interlude in Casablanca.
 
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Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Arabic and German are awesome. And even sound a bit alike (harsh and guttural), as I've said before.
 

Clemens

Aedilis

  • Aedilis

Location:
Maine, United States.
Yes, the etymology. The word for "welcome" is based on a root with the idea of wideness, which seems fitting: think about welcoming someone with arms wide open.
I wonder if this is also the origin of the name Rahab, the woman of Jericho who helped the Hebrews sneak in.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
Yes.
 
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