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by **happening fish** » 4/13/2003, 8:45 pm

I just found my Concise Dictionary of English Etymology!

Give me any word, and I'll tell you where it comes from :nod:

by **Corey** » 4/13/2003, 8:48 pm

diarrhoea

by **thirdhour** » 4/13/2003, 8:50 pm

Etymology

by **happening fish** » 4/13/2003, 8:52 pm

Diarrhoea, greek, literally "a flowing through"; to flow through

by **happening fish** » 4/13/2003, 8:54 pm

Etymology, greek, "to speak truly"

by **Solidarity 9-6347** » 4/13/2003, 8:58 pm

kimono

by **Corey** » 4/13/2003, 8:59 pm

greek.. for kimona... which means cold... you wear a robe when its cold... and a kimono is a robe :lol:

by **happening fish** » 4/13/2003, 9:17 pm

himona means winter, genius! nice try though

by **sandsleeper** » 4/13/2003, 9:32 pm

alex, have you ever gotten your hands on a volume of the Oxford English Dictionary? now that is :drool:

It has, I believe, an entire page dedicated to the word "tragic" and even more for the word "catastrophe."

by **areusad831** » 4/13/2003, 9:48 pm

my learn to speak better the thread is much more off the hook then this one

by **Odin** » 4/13/2003, 9:51 pm

I'd like to look up:

God
Objectivity
Void
Peace
Everything
Nothing
a priori
Nihilism

...

That's about it for now.

by **buzhwa** » 4/13/2003, 11:03 pm

*shakes fist and makes evil eye* Bloodthirsty Turks!

:lol:

Hey, Alex, how about "because"?

by **Fras** » 4/14/2003, 9:49 am

Why
When
What
Who

see if they can explain those without using the words

by **Fras** » 4/14/2003, 9:49 am

Why; see "Becase"

Because; Because why. see "Why"

by **sandsleeper** » 4/14/2003, 12:25 pm

check out what OED.com has to say about "borscht belt"

by **happening fish** » 4/15/2003, 5:29 pm

Odin wrote:God
Objectivity
Void
Peace
Everything
Nothing
a priori
Nihilism

God: simply an Anglo-Saxon word. Variations include "gud" (Swedish/Danish), "guth" (Meso-Gothic), and "gott" (German)

Objectivity: the best I could find was object, Latin, "obiectare", to throw against, oppose, or cast towards

Void: Old French, "vide", empty. Or Latin, "uiduum", to be bereft of something

Peace: Latin, "pacem", accusitive case of "pax", peace, originally a bargain

Thing: Anglo-Saxon, "thing", a thing, also an assembly, meeting, council

Every: Middle English, "eueri"

No: short for none: Anglo-Saxon, "nan"

Nihilism: Latin, "nihil", nothing

And for Sarah,

Because: due to a cause: French, "cause", Latin, "caussa"

Those were a bit boring, what about this...

Catholic: Latin, "catholicus", Greek, "katholikis", "katholou": on the whole, in general. made up of "kath" for "kata": according to, and "olous", everything or everybody

therefore "Catholic" means "according to everyone"

by **the android** » 4/15/2003, 5:33 pm

Argh, that's aggravating.

by **Axtech** » 4/15/2003, 6:08 pm

by **happening fish** » 4/15/2003, 8:17 pm

i don't get it

by **Axtech** » 4/16/2003, 5:51 am

"Catholic" meaning "according to everyone" is aggravating.

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