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May 26, 2024, 12:37 am UTC    
August 31, 2005 10:30AM
Hi Kennuchelover,

Because I'm a sad and because I like this sort of thing sad smiley

1: Wund - hurt, Winden - twist, turn, wind
2: Latin producere - to bring forth, to have brought forth
3: Latin refundere to give back - that which is given back
4: Used to be Polak until it became used offensively in the USA
5: metal = lead, other is laeden (both OE)
6: Dessert - Old Fr for "to remove from the table, the place from Latin desertum (a thing abandoned) and the verb from Latin Deserere - to abandon.
7: Both from Latin intimare - to make known
8: Latin bassus = low, OE baers (fish) from IndoEuropean bhors "bristle"
9: Both probably from "dive" OE Dufan.
10: Both from Latin objectare - to throw against or across (presumably the noun relates to physicality?)
11: Latin invalidus - not strong, weak, infirm - originally an "invalid action" had no legal force".
12: Boats = OE rowan, Arguments = University slang from the C18AD - perhapse from "rousal", a shortening of "carousel"
13: Both from the IE root Klau - hook, crook or forked branch - all primitive closing devices.
14: A Northumbrian OE varient of doth, doeth. Deer = OE "Da" = deer
15: Exaquaria = the underground tunnel, other from IE Siw - to sew.
16: OE sawan - to plant seed, pig = OE sugu or su
17: Wind (air) = IE went, for winding up see 1
18: IE nem = to divide or distribute. Numb = OE for "taken" (i.e taken by an illness, etc).
19: OE tearan = pull apart, OE teahor = water from the eye.
20: verb from Latin subjectare, noun from subicere "to place under"
21: Now = Latin præsentem, to give and the given = Latin from præsens "being there", given in the "presense of"

Pete




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