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Kraken Eggs
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Octopus sex is a bit of a mind-fuck.
- I fucking love science
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Octopuses Lose Their Minds after Sex, Then Die
- www.ranker.com/list/octopus-sex-facts/machk
So, what is octopus sex like?
It's violent, takes hours, and often results in death by cannibalism.
When you finish reading this list of octopus sex facts,
you will be glad you're not an octopus.
But always remember, knowledge is power.
Read this list
and all the questions you didn't know you had about
octopuses getting it on
will finally get answered.
- www.ranker.com/list/octopus-sex-facts/machk
egg (n.)
"the body formed in the females of all animals
(with the exception of a few of the lowest type)
in which by impregnation the development of the fetus takes place,"
mid-14c., egge, mostly in northern England dialect,
from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajja(m)
(source also of Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Old High German, German ei, Gothic ada),
probably from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo-"egg"
(source also of Old Church Slavonic aja, Russian jajco,
Breton ui, Welsh wy, Greek oon, Latin ovum);
- www.etymonline.com/word/egg
the Ogdoad created an egg from which the world was born.
It was considered to be invisible at the time,
because before creation there was no sun,
until the day that it hatched
when from it exuded the brilliant golden light
that they had been waiting for.
- www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/infinite-ogdoad-creation-pantheon-ancient-egypt-and-predecessor-gods-old-020447
crack (v.)
Old English cracian "make a sharp noise, give forth a loud, abrupt sound,"
from Proto-Germanic *krakojan
(source also of Middle Dutch craken, Dutch kraken, German krachen)
- www.etymonline.com/word/crack
“Do you hear that sound?”
- Dan Brown
Origin
Wait. What was that? Do you hear it, too?
Did you feel a bump and nudging
as if a sea-monster had just latched onto a ship?
Can you hear giant tentacles rasping against the wooden hull?
- William Kidder
Tales of The Brew D’Agon
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Louis crumpled to the deck with a wail, which paled in comparison to the hellish siren song in his mind. His body writhed and flopped around on the deck like a dying fish as the madness hacked back into his brain. His eyes bulged. His lips, teeth, and tongue formed grotesque shapes, which in turn formed inaudible words, as he silently mouthed a babbling stream of supra-consciousness. Louis spake the Great Secret; no one heard him. He couldn’t even hear his own thoughts over the roaring torrent of information flooding his mind.
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He could feel it in his soul.
Even in his anguish,
the unity of the moment was intoxicating.
It was as if a connective web
had shot out in all directions around the globe.
- Dan Brown
Angels & Demons
ocean (n.)
Late 13c., from Old French occean "ocean"
(late 12c., Modern French ocean),
from Latin oceanus, from Greek okeanos,
the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth
(as opposed to the Mediterranean), of unknown origin.
Personified as Oceanus,
son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys.
In early times, when the only known land masses were Eurasia and Africa,
the ocean was an endless river that flowed around them.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ocean
ag·o·ny (ăg'ə-nē) n. pl. -nies
1. The suffering of intense physical or mental pain.
2. The struggle that precedes death.
3. A sudden or intense emotion of a particular sort:
an agony of doubt.
4. A violent or intense struggle.
[ME agonie < OFr. < Med. Lat. agonia < agon, struggle.]
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Second College Edition
ache (v.)
O.E. acan “to ache, suffer pain,” from P.Gmc. *akanan,
perhaps from PIE root *ag-es- “fault, guilt,”
represented also in Sanskrit and Greek,
perhaps imitative of groaning.
The verb was pronounced “ake,” the noun “ache”
(by i-mutation, as in speak/speech)
but while the noun changed pronunciation to conform to the verb,
the spelling of both was changed to ache c.1700
on a false assumption of a Greek origin
(specifically Gk. akhos “pain, distress,”
which is rather a distant relation of awe (n.)).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ache
Ach, said Eragon, shaking his head.
It’s like speaking in riddles….
- Christopher Paoliniu
Eragon
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
“Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly
that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed
—to merge, to blend,
to intermarry,
to lose personal identity in group experience.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land
the basic technique
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_ontology
bait (n.)
"food put on a hook or trap to attract prey," c. 1300,
from Old Norse beita "food, bait," especially for fish,
from beita "cause to bite," from Proto-Germanic *baitjan,
causative of *bitan, from PIE root *bheid- "to split,"
with derivatives in Germanic referring to biting.
The noun is cognate with
Old Norse beit "pasture, pasturage,"
Old English bat "food."
Figurative sense "means of enticement" is from c. 1400.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=bait
hook (v.)
"to bend like a hook," c.1200; see hook (n.).
Meaning "to catch (a fish) with a hook"
is from c.1300. Related: Hooked; hooking.
hook (n.)
Old English hoc "hook, angle,"
perhaps related to Old English haca "bolt,"
from Proto-Germanic *hokaz/*hakan- (cf. Old Frisian hok,
Middle Dutch hoek, Dutch haak, German Haken "hook"),
from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (cf. Russian kogot "claw").
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hook
hack (v.1)
“to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows,” c.1200,
from verb found in stem of O.E. tohaccian “hack to pieces,”
from W.Gmc. *hakkon (cf. O.Fris. hackia “to chop or hack,”
Du. hakken, O.H.G. hacchon, Ger. hacken),
from PIE *keg- “hook, tooth.”
Perhaps influenced by O.N. hoggva “to hack, hew”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hack
“When you cut into the present the future leaks out.”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
I'm just dreaming of tearing you apart
- Fallout Boy
My Song Know What You Did in the Dark
I'm going to fucking tear you apart.
- She Wants Revenge
Tear You Apart
Burroughs’s use of cutups develops his juxtaposition technique
to its logical conclusion as an experimental prose method,
and he also makes use of all contemporary media,
expanding his use of popular culture.
As Burroughs experimented with the technique,
he began to develop a theory of the cutup,
and his theory was incorporated into his pseudoscience
- http://languageisavirus.com/articles/article.php?subaction=etc…..
However, ludicrous this may sound,
Rudbeck had not lost his mind.
What he had lost was perspective and,
all too often, a sense of reality.
And so Rudbeck went on happily
deriving many Greek words from Swedish origin,
each one adding to the accumulating pile of evidence
about the Swedish impact on the ancient past,
and each one, at the same time,
showing how ingenious his delusions could be.
- David King
Finding Atlantis
“Since man first discovered fire,” Edmond shouted,
“this river has been gaining power.
Every discovery became a tool
with which we made new discoveries,
each time adding a drop to this river.
- Dan Brown
Origin
I half suspected
the compiler of having asked leading questions,
or of having edited the correspondence
in corroboration of what
he had latently resolved to see.
- H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulhu
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson.
a principle so nearly universal that it has even been called a law,
that is, the unintelligible but repeated elements in names
are to be referred back to some generic term in an earlier language.
- George R. Stewart
Names on the Land
“Prehistoric man, i.e., Turks in the most primitive stage,
was so struck by the effects of the sun on life
that he made of it a deity whence sprang all good and evil.
Thence came to him light, darkness, warmth and fire,
with it were associated all ideas
of time: height, distance, movement, size,
and give expression to his feelings
the sun was thus the first thing to which a name was given.
It was ‘ag’ (pronounced agh),
and from this syllable all words in use today are derived.
This briefly, is the theory about the ‘sun language,’”
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Language_Theory
Quote from The New York Times, 1936
Spelling substitution of -gh- for a "hard H" sound
was a Middle English scribal habit,
especially before -t-. In some late Old English examples,
the middle consonant was represented by a yogh.
- www.etymonline.com/word/fight
H
eighth letter of the alphabet; it comes
from Phoenician, via Greek and Latin.
In Phoenician it originally had a rough guttural sound
like German Reich or Scottish loch.
In Greek at first it had the value of Modern English -h-,
and with this value it passed into the Latin alphabet
via Greek colonies in Italy. Subsequently in Greek
it came to be used for a long "e" sound;
the "h" sound being indicated by a fragment of the letter,
which later was reduced to the aspiration mark.
In Germanic it was used
for the voiceless breath sound
when at the beginning of words,
and in the middle or at the end of words
for the rough guttural sound,
which later came to be written -gh.
- www.etymonline.com/word/H
"aitch" was in Old French
(ache "name of the letter H"),
and is from a presumed Late Latin *accha
- www.etymonline.com/word/H
eight (n.)
late 14c., eighte, earlier ehte (c. 1200), from Old English eahta, æhta,
from Proto-Germanic *akhto (source also of Old Saxon ahto, Old Frisian ahta,
Old Norse atta, Swedish åtta, Dutch acht, Old High German Ahto,
German acht, Gothic ahtau), from PIE *okto(u) "eight"
(source also of Sanskrit astau, Avestan ashta, Greek okto, Latin octo,
Old Irish ocht-n, Breton eiz, Old Church Slavonic osmi, Lithuanian aštuoni).
From the Latin word come Italian otto, Spanish ocho,
Old French oit, Modern French huit.
For spelling, see fight (v.).
- www.etymonline.com/word/eight
There is one additional major facet of the Oc/Og
picture in Great Britain and Ireland
that by its conspicuous absence from our history books
throws the spotlight once more on the question
of whether or not there has been
a long-term, concentrated, highly successful campaign
to blot out from peoples’ minds
all memory of Oc/Og.
- John Philip Cohane
The Key
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things.
- Isaiah 45:7
King James Bible
Enki, the lord of abundance
(whose) commands are trustworthy,
The lord of wisdom,
who understands the land,
The leader of the gods,
Endowed with wisdom,
the lord of Eridu Changed
the speech in their mouths,
[brought] contention into it,
Into the speech of man
that (until then) had been one.
- Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Have they truly forgotten? Mal’akh wondered.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
the whole earth was of one language,
and of one speech.
- Genesis 11:1
King James Bible
The whole universe,
the people in unison
To Enlil in one tongue spoke
- Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Dear was he to our Lord; but it could not be hidden
That his angel began to be proud,
Lifted himself against his Leader, sought hate-speech,
Words of boasting against him, and would not serve God.
["Education," vol. xviii, No. 6, Feb. 1898]
- www.etymonline.com/word/hate
The Book of Genesis, in its eleventh chapter,
reports on the attempts by humans to raise up a shem.
The biblical account is given in concise (and precise) language
that bespeaks historical fact.
Yet generations of scholars and translators have sought
to impart to the tale only an allegorical meaning
because – as they understood it – it was a tale
concerning Mankind’s desire to “make a name” for itself.
Such an approach voided the tale of its factual meaning;
our conclusion regarding the true meaning of shem
makes the tale as meaningful as it must have been
to the people of antiquity themselves.
- Zecharia Sitchin
The Twelfth Planet
shame (n.)
Old English scamu, sceomu "feeling of guilt or disgrace;
confusion caused by shame; disgrace, dishonor, insult,
loss of esteem or reputation; shameful circumstance, what brings disgrace;
modesty; private parts," from Proto-Germanic *skamo
(source also of Old Saxon skama, Old Norse skömm, Swedish skam,
Old Frisian scome, Dutch schaamte, Old High German scama, German Scham).
The best guess is that this is from PIE *skem-, from *kem- "to cover"
- www.etymonline.com/word/shame
The Lord said,
“If as one people speaking the same language
they have begun to do this,
then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
- Genesis 11:1
King James Bible
Come, let us go down and confuse their language
so they will not understand each other.”
- Genesis 11:1
King James Bible
If you are the big, big tree,
We are the small axe
- Lee “Scratch” Perry & Bob Marley
Small Axe
Ask the Druid. Ask the Dervish.
Perhaps they can more fully explain to you how
the branches of the family tree of Humanity,
that legendarily amnesiac species,
are more interwoven than your present
understanding allows.
I am not here with you today to teach you
what I know in regards to this phenomenon.
Despite my professional title, I am not a teacher
in the classical sense; more a pneumonic aide
for any pupil willing to commit to the hard work of seeing.
- Professor Thomas Mal’Akh’I
Private interview with W. H. Kidder 5/5/2005
druid
1560s, from Fr. druidae (pl.), from Gaulish Druides,
from O.Celt. *derwijes, probably representing O.Celt. derwos
“true” and *dru- “tree” (especially oak)
+ *wid- “to know” (cf. vision).
Hence, lit., perhaps, “they who know the oak”
(perhaps in allusion to divination from mistletoe).
Anglo-Saxon, too, used identical words
to mean “tree” and “truth” (treow).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=druid
book (n.)
O.E. boc "book, writing, written document,"
traditionally from P.Gmc. *bokiz "beech"
(cf. Ger. Buch "book" Buche "beech;" see beech),
the notion being of beechwood tablets
on which runes were inscribed,
but it may be from the tree itself
(people still carve initials in them).
The O.E. originally meant any written document.
Latin and Sanskrit also have words for "writing"
that are based on tree names ("birch" and "ash",
- www.etymonline.com/?search=book
oak
O.E. ac “oak tree,” from P.Gmc. aiks
(cf. O.N. eik, O.Fris., M.Du. ek, Du. eik, O.H.G. eih, Ger. Eiche),
of uncertain origin with no certain cognates outside Germanic.
The usual Indo-European base for “oak”
(*derwo-/*dreu-) has become Modern English tree.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=oak
speaking in parallels.
- Idries Shah
Tales of the Dervishes
in parables:
- Mark 4:11
King James Bible
ask the axis
- Jimi Hendrix
Bold as Love
the name of God.
- www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22190802
ask
O.E. ascian “ask, call for an answer; make a request,”
from earlier ahsian, from P.Gmc. *aiskojan
(c.f. O.S. escon, O.Fris. askia “request, demand, ask,”
M.Du. eiscen, Du. eisen “to ask, demand,”
O.H.G. eiscon “to ask (a question),” Ger. heischen “to ask, demand”),
from PIE *ais- “to wish, desire” (cf. icchati “seeks, desires,”
Arm. Aic “investigation,” O.C.S. iskati “to seek,” Lith. ieskau “to seek”).
Form in English influenced by a Scandinavian form of the word
(cf. Dan. æske; the O.E. would have evolved
by normal sound changes into ash, esh,
which was a Midlands and s.w. England dialect form).
Modern dialectal ax is as old as O.E. ascian
and was an accepted literary variant until c.1600.
Related: Asked; asking.
Old English also had fregnan/frignan
which carried more directly the sense of "question, inquire,"
and is from PIE root *prek-,
the common source of words for "ask"
in most Indo-European languages (see pray).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ask
The tree of life in Norse legend
refers to the first male mortal, Ask,
who was fashioned from an ash tree.
- Carl J. Becker
A Modern Theory of Language
axe (n.)
O.E. aeces (Northumbrian acas) “axe, pickaxe, hatchet,”
later aex, from P.Gmc. *akusjo
(cf. O.S. accus, O.N. ex, O.Fris. axe, Ger. Axt, Goth. aqizi),
from PIE *agw(e)si- (cf. Gk. axine, L. ascia).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=axe
ash (1)
“powdery remains of fire,” O.E. æsce “ash,”
from P.Gmc. *askon (cf. O.N., Swed. aska, O.H.G. asca,
Ger. asche, Goth. azgo “ashes”
ash (2)
type of tree, O.E. æsc “ash tree,”
also “spear made of ash wood,”
from P.Gmc. *askaz, askiz (cf. O.N. askr, O.S. ask,
M.Du. esce, Ger. Esche), from PIE root *os- “ash tree”
(cf. Arm. Haci “ash tree,” Alb. Ah “beech,” Gk. oxya “beech,”
L. ornus “wild mountain ash,” Rus. jasen, Lith. uosis “ash”).
Ash was the preferred wood for spear-shafts,
so O.E. æsc sometimes meant “spear”
(cf. æsc-here “company armed with spears”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=ash
dagger (n.)
late 14c., apparently from O.Fr. dague “dagger,”
from O.Prov. dague or It. daga,
of uncertain origin; perhaps Celtic,
perhaps from V.L. *daca “Dacian knife,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=dagger
poke (v.)
late 14c., perhaps from M.Du. poken “to poke,”
or M.L.G. poken “to stick with a knife,”
both from P.Gmc. root *puk-, perhaps imitative.
To poke fun “tease” first attested 1840;
to poke around “search” is from 1809.
The noun meaning “an act of poking” is attested from 1796,
originally pugilistic slang.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=poke
stick (v.)
O.E. stician “to pierce, stab,”
also “to remain embedded, be fastened,”
from P.Gmc. *stik- “pierce, prick, be sharp”
(cf. O.S. stekan, O.Fris. steka, Du. stecken,
O.H.G. stehhan, Ger. stechen “to stab, prick”),
from PIE *steig- (cf. L. in-stigare “to goad;”
Gk. stizein “to prick, puncture,”
stigma “mark made by a pointed instrument;”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=stick
dig
early 14c. (diggen), of uncertain origin,
perhaps related to dike and ditch, either via O.Fr. diguer
(ultimately from a Germanic source),
or directly from an unrecorded O.E. word.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=dig
dike
O.E. dic “trench, ditch; an earthwork with a trench; moat,:
from P.Gmc. *dik- (cf. O.N. diki “ditch, fishpond,”
O.Fris. dik “mound, dam,” M.Du. dijc “mound, dam, pool,”
Du. dijk “dam,” Ger. Deich “embankment”),
from PIE root *dheigw- “to pierce, fasten”
(cf. Skt. dehi- “wall,” O.Pers. dida “wall, stronghold, fortress,”
Pers. dis). At first “an excavation,”
later (late 15c.) applied to the resulting earth mound;
a sense development paralleled by cognate forms
in many other languages.
This is the northern variant of the word
that in the south of England yielded ditch.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=dike
edge (n.)
O.E. ecg “corner, edge, point,”
also “sword” (cf. ecgplega, lit “edge play,”
ecghete, lit. “edge hate,” both used poetically for “battle”),
from P.Gmc. *agjo (cf. O.Fris. egg “edge;”
O.S. eggia “point, edge;” M.Du. egghe, Du. eg; O.N. egg,
see egg (v.); O.H.G. ecka, Ger. Eck “corner”),
from PIE root *ak- “sharp, pointed”
(cf. Skt. asrih “edge,” L. acies, Gk. akis “point;” see acrid).
Spelling development of O.E. –cg to M.E. –gg to Modern English –dge
represents a widespread shift in pronunciation.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=edge
hedge (n.)
O.E. hecg, originally any fence, living or artificial,
from W.Gmc. *khaja (cf. M.Du. hegge, Du. heg,
O.H.G. hegga, Ger. Hecke “hedge”),
from PIE *kagh- “to catch, seize; wickerwork, fence”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hedge
hag (n.)
early 13c., "ugly old woman,"
probably a shortening of Olde English haegtesse "witch, fury"
(on assumption that –tesse was a suffix),
from Proto-Germanic *hagatusjon-, of unknown origin.
Similar shortening produced Dutch heks, German Hexe
("witch" from cognate Middle Dutch haghetisse,
Old High German hagzusa.
First element is probably cognate with Old English haga
"enclosure, portion of woodland marked off for cutting"
(see hedge)).
Old Norse had tunrida and Old High German zunritha,
both literally "hedge-rider," used of witches and ghosts.
Second element may be connected
with Norwegian tysja "fairy; crippled woman,"
Gaulish dusius "demon," Lithuanian dvasia "spirit,"
from PIE *dhewes-
"to fly about, smoke, be scattered, vanish."
One of the magic words
for which there is no male form,
suggesting its original meaning
was close to "diviner, soothsayer,"
which were always female
in northern European paganism,
and haegtesse seem at one time to have meant
"woman of prophetic and oracular powers"
(Aelfric uses it to render the Greek "pythoness,"
the voice of the Delphic oracle),
a figure greatly feared and respected.
Later, the word was used of village wise women.
Haga is also the haw- in hawthorn,
which is an important tree
in northern European pagan religion.
There may be several layers of folk etymology here.
Confusion or blending with heathenish is suggested
by Middle English haehtis, haegtis "hag, witch, fury, etc.,"
and haetness "goddess,"used of Minerva and Diana.
If the haegtesse was once a powerful supernatural woman
(in Norse it is an alternative word for Norn,
any of the three weird sisters, the equivalent of the Fates),
it might originally have carried the hawthorn sense.
Later, when the pagan magic was reduced to local scatterings,
it might have had the sense of "hedge-rider,"
or "she who straddles the hedge,"
because the hedge was the boundary between
the "civilized" world of the village
and the wild world beyond.
The haegtesse would have a foot in each reality.
Even later, when it meant the local healer and root collector,
living in the open and moving from village to village,
it may have had the mildly perjorative sense of hedge-
in Middle English (hedge-priest, etc.),
suggesting an itinerant sleeping under bushes, perhaps.
The same word could have contained all three senses
before being reduced to its modern one.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hag
hoe (n.)
mid –14c., from O.Fr. houe (12c.), from Frankish *hawwa,
from P.Gmc. *hawwan
(cf. O.H.G. howwa “hoe, mattock, pick-axe,” Ger. haue),
from PIE *kau- “to hew, strike” (see hew).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hoe
Oko (hoe)
God of agriculture. Yoruba [Nigeria, West Africa].
According to tradition he descended from heaven
- Michael Jordan
Encyclopedia of Gods
“k” sound in Latin is known to correspond with an “h”
in the Germanic group of languages,
- Nicholas Wade
Before the Dawn
Take the Polynesian demigod, Maui,
and his magic fishook, the makau.
Maui perfectly fits the trickster-shaman archetype.
If we assume a common sound change may have occurred ,
the softening or aspirating of a hard 'k'/ 'g' or 'ch' / 'j' to an 'h' / 'aw',
and then reverse engineer the shift, 'Maui' becomes 'magi'.
- Professor Thomas Mal’Akh’I
Private interview with W. H. Kidder 5/5/2005
hook (n.)
Old English hoc "hook, angle,"
perhaps related to Old English haca "bolt,"
from Proto-Germanic *hokaz/*hakan- (cf. Old Frisian hok,
Middle Dutch hoek, Dutch haak, German Haken "hook"),
from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth" (cf. Russian kogot "claw").
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hook
hack (v.1)
“to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows,” c.1200,
from verb found in stem of O.E. tohaccian “hack to pieces,”
from W.Gmc. *hakkon (cf. O.Fris. hackia “to chop or hack,”
Du. hakken, O.H.G. hacchon, Ger. hacken),
from PIE *keg- “hook, tooth.”
Perhaps influenced by O.N. hoggva “to hack, hew”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hack
hew (v.)
O.E. heawan “to chop, hack, gash”
(class VII strong verb; past tense heow, pp. heawen,
earlier geheawan, from P. Gmc. *hawwan (cf. O.N. hoggva,
O.Fris. hawa, O.S. hauwan, M.Du. hauwen, Du. Houwen,
O.H.G. houwan, Ger. Hauen “to cut, strike, hew”)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=hew
saw (1)
“cutting tool,” O.E. sagu, from P.Gmc. *sago “a cutting tool”
(cf. O.E. seax “knife,” O.N. sog, Norw. sag, Dan. sav,
M.Du. saghe, Du. zaag, O.H.G. saga,
Ger. sage “saw”), from PIE root *sak-/sek- “to cut”
(cf. L. secare “to cut,” Rus. sech’ “to cut;”
see section).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=saw
saw (2)
“proverb,” O.E. sagu “saying, discourse, speech,”
from P.Gmc. *saga-, *sagon- (cf. M.L.G., M.Du. sage, zage,
Ger. Sage “legend, fable, saga, myth, tradition,” O.N. saga “story, tale, saga”)
from the root of O.E. secgan “say” (see say).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=saw
sage (adj.)
“wise,” c.1300 (late 12c. as a surname),
from Old French sage “wise, knowledgeable, learned; shrewd, skillful”
(11c.), from Gallo-Roman *sabius, from Vulgar Latin *sapius,
from Latin sapere “have a taste, have good taste, be wise,”
from PIE root *sap- “to taste” (see sap (n.1)).
Meaning “characterized by wisdom” is from 1530s.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=sage
say (v.)
O.E. secgan “to utter, say,” from P.Gmc. sagjanan
(cf. O.S. seggian, O.N. segja, O.Fris. sedsa,
M.Du. segghen, Du. zeggen, O.H.G. sagen, Ger. Sagen “to say”),
from PIE *sokei-, probably from root *seq- “point out”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=say
eye (n.)
c.1200, from O.E. ege (Mercian), eage (W.Saxon),
from P.Gmc. *augon
(cf. O.S. aga, O.Fris. age, O.N. auga, Swed. oga, Dan. oie,
M.Du. oghe, Du. oog, O.H.G. ouga, Ger. auge, Goth. augo “eye”),
from PIE *okw- “to see” (cf. Skt. akshi “the eye, the number two,”
Gk. opsis “a sight,” Goth. augo, O.C.S. oko, Lith. akis,
L. oculus, Gk. okkos, Tocharian ak, ek, Armenian akn).
Until late 14c. the plural was in -an, hence modern dialectal plural een, ene.
The eye of a needle was in O.E.; to see eye to eye is from Isa. liii:8.
Eye contact attested by 1965.
Eye-opener “anything that informs and enlightens” is from 1863.
Have an eye on “keep under supervision” is attested from early 15c.
eye (v.)
early 15c., “cause to see;” 1560s, “behold, observe,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=eye
see (v.)
O.E. seon (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, pp. sewen),
from P.Gmc. *sekhwanan (cf. O.S., O.H.G. sehan, M.H.G.,
Ger. sehen, O.Fris. sia, M.Du. sien, O.N. sja, Goth. saihwan),
from PIE root *sekw- “to see”, which is “probably” the same base
that produced words for “say” in Greek and Latin,
and also words for “follow” (cf. L. sequor), but “opinions differ
in regard to the semantic starting-point and sequences” [Buck]
Thus see could originally mean “follow with the eyes.”
Used in Middle English to mean “behold
in the imagination or dream” (c.1200),
“to recognize the force of (a demonstration),” also c.1200,
“often with ref. to metaphorical light or eyes” [OED],
and “to learn by reading” (early 15c.).
Past tense saw developed from O.E. plural sawon.
When you have seen one of their Pictures,
you have seen all. [Blake c.1811]
Sense of “escort” (e.g. to see someone home)
first recorded 1607 in Shakespeare.
Meaning “to receive a visitor” is attested from c.1500.
Gambling sense of “equal a bet” is from 1590s.
See you as a casual farewell first attested 1891.
Seeing Eye dog first attested 1929, Amer. Eng.,
trademarked by Seeing Eye Inc.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=see
seek
O.E. secan “visit, inquire, pursue,”
influenced by O.N. soekja, both from P.Gmc. *sokjanan
(cf. sokian, O.Fris. seka, M.Du. soekan, O.H.G. suohhan,
Ger. Suchen, Goth. sokjan),
from PIE *sag- “to track down, to trace”
(cf. L. sagire “to perceive quickly or keenly,”
sagus “presaging, predicting,” .Ir. saigim “seek”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=seek
suck (v.)
O.E. sucan from PIE root *sug-/*suk- of imitative origin
(cf. O.S., O.H.G. sugan, O.N. suga, M.Du. sughen,
Du. zuigen, Ger. Saugen “to suck;”
L. sugere “to suck,” succus “juice, sap;”
O.Ir. sugim, Welsh sugno “to suck”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=suck
sex (n.)
late 14c., “males or females collectively,”
from L. sexus “state of being either
male or female, gender.”
“Commonly taken with seco as division
or ‘half’ of the race” [Tucker],
which would connect it to secare “to divide or cut
(see section).
Meaning “quality of being male or female” first recorded 1520s.
Meaning “sexual intercourse” first attested 1929
(in writings of D.H. Lawrence);
meaning “genitalia” is attested from 1938.
Sex appeal attested 1904.
For the raw sex appeal of the burlesque “shows”
there is no defense, either.
These shows should be under official supervision, at the least,
and boys beneath the age of eighteen forbidden,
perhaps, to attend their performance,
just as we forbid the sale of liquors to minors.
[Walter Richard Eaton, “At the New Theatre and Others;
The American Stage, Its Problems and Performances,”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=sex
secret
late 14c. (n.), c.1400 (adj.), from L. secretus “set apart,
withdrawn, hidden,” originally pp. of secernere “to set apart,”
from se- “without, apart,” prop. “on one’s own”
(from PIE *sed-, from root *s(w)e-; see idiom) + cernere “separate”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=secret
act (n.)
late 14c., “a thing done,” from O.Fr. acte “ (official) document,”
and directly from L. actus “a doing, a driving, impulse;
a part in a play, act,”
and actum “a thing done,”
originally a legal term, both from agere
“to do, set in motion, drive, urge, chase, stir up,”
from PIE root *ag- “to drive, draw out or forth, move”
(cf. Gk. agein “to lead, guide, drive, carry off,”
agon “assembly, contest in the games,”
agogos “leader;” Skt. Ajati “drives,”
ajirah “moving, active;” O.N aka “to drive;”
M.Ir ag “battle”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=act
urge (v.)
1550s, from L. urgere “to press hard, push, drive, compel,”
from PIE root *werg- “to work”
(cf. Avestan vareza “work, activity:” Gk. ergon “work,”
orgia “religious performances,” organnon “tool;”
Armenian gorc “work;” Lith. Verziu “tie, fasten, squeeze,”
vargas “need, distress;” O.C.S. vragu “enemy;”
Goth. waurkjan, O.E. wyrcan “work;”
Goth. wrikan “persecute,” O.E. wrecan “drive, hunt, pursue;”
O.N. yrka “work, take effect”).
- www.etymonline.com/?search=urge
orgy
1560s, orgies (pl.) “secret rites in the worship
of certain Greek and Roman gods,” especially Dionysus,
from M.Fr orgies (c1500), from L. orgia,
from Gk. orgia (pl.) “secret rites,”
from PIE root *werg- “to work”
- www.etymonline.com/?search=orgy
syn-agog-ue (συν-αγωγ-ή), a place where people are drawn together
(The Greek prefix syn- is more accurately transcribed sun-
and corresponds to the Latin con- or cum-
and the Sanskrit sam- meaning together.
- Damien O’Brien
If Houses, Why Not Mouses?
vagina
1680s, from L. vagina “sheath, scabbard”
(pl. vaginae), from PIE *wag-ina-
(cf. Lith voziu “to cover with a hollow thing”),
from root *wag- “to break, split, bite.”
Probably the ancient notion is of a sheath
made from a split piece of wood (see sheath).
A modern medical word; the Latin word was not used
in an anatomical sense in classical times.
Anthropological vagina dentata is attested from 1908.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=vagina
The word has probable cognates
in other Germanic languages,
such as German ficken (to fuck);
Dutch fokken (to breed, to strike, to beget);
dialectal Norwegian fukka (to copulate),
and dialectal Swedish fokka (to strike, to copulate)
and fock (penis). This points to
a possible etymology where Common German fuk-
comes from an Indo-European root
meaning “to strike”,
cognate with non-Germanic words such as Latin pugnus “fist”.
By reverse application of Grimm’s law,
this hypothetical root has the form *pug-.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck
fork (n.)
Old English forca “forked instrument used by torturers,”
a Germanic borrowing (cognate with Old Norse forkr)
from Latin furca “pitchfork; fork used in cooking,”
of uncertain origin.
- www.etymonline.com/?search=fork
The method is based on identifying sets of related words
that change in predictable ways
between members of a language family.
The French and Italian words for “goat”
are not particularly similar,but
when compared with other words
it is clear that a “k” sound in Italian
corresponds with a “ch” sound in French,
and a “p” in Italian corresponds
with an “f” or “v” in French.
These sound correspondences exist
because many French and Italian words are cognates,
or descendants of the same parent word
in their common ancestor tongue of Latin.
LATIN ITALIAN FRENCH ENGLISH
capra capra chevre goat
caput capo chef head
canis cane chien dog
Once the rules of sound correspondence
between contemporary languages have been established,
the word in the parent language can be reconstructed.
Scholars have reconstructed an extensive vocabulary
in proto-Indo-European, the hypothesized ancestral tongue
of many European and Indian languages.
Any claim that a language is part of the Indo-European family
can be tested by seeing if its grammar and vocabulary can be derived,
by the established rules, from proto-Indo-European.
From the instances above, English might not be a promising candidate,
but the initial “k” sound in Latin is known
to correspond with an “h” in the Germanic group of languages,
making head and the German word haupt
(now a figurative word for head)
cognates with the Latin caput.
By the same rule Latin’s canis is cognate
with German’s hund and the English word hound,
all being derived from the proto-Indo-European word *kwon.
- Nicholas Wade
Before the Dawn
chew
O.E. ceowan “to bite, gnaw, chew,”
from W.Gmc. *keuwwan
(cf. M.L.G. keuwen, Du. kauwen, O.H.G. kiuwan)
- www.etymonline.com/?search=chew
They are outsiders, mere cowans*
as far as the real secret is concerned.
*Masonic jargon for the unenlightened;
probably from the Greek coun, dog.
- R.A. Wilson
The Widow’s Son
There was a lot here which Smaug did not understand at all
(though I expect you do,
since you know all about Bilbo’s adventures
to which he was referring),
but he thought he understood enough,
and he chuckled in his wicked inside.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through
- Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
& What Alice Found There
ideas
drifting away
Past and present, they don't
matter,
now the future's
sorted out
Watch her
moving
in elliptical patterns
Think
it's not what you say, what
you say is way too complicated
For a minute, thought I couldn't
tell
how to fall
- Phoenix
1901
Oh, yeah,
that's the break,
y'all
- Digital Underground
The Humpty Dance
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