If there are no more takers in the 'take-up' challenge, here is a word I discovered this week, while reading a book Usage: The boy was paying out the kite. (Paying out?) pay something out (or pay out) 1. pay a large sum of money from funds under one's control. "she had to pay out £300 for treatment" 2. let out (a rope) by slackening it. "I began paying out the nylon line" Usage (2) is new to me.
Doors of E & G! Can I not exit for real?! Hmm idea? Well am to join Spanish class soon, so just curious to explore / discover words with Spanish roots... Geek, Latin also cool... :squinting and thinking:
Big time. The words I remember most are the ones where I understood the roots. Many of us have read "Word Power Made Easy" during college days. The stories behind words are so fascinating.
Dear Jey, You always evoke in me that proverbial "took the words right out of my mouth". How can one forgot that vintage year of carrying "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis. I feel it is a cultural thing in the campus to find students hauling "Word Power Made Easy" in the first year, followed by few other vocabulary books, and swotting over "Baron's Guide" in the final year. I'm sure most of them would also have subscribed to Anu Garg's "A Word a Day". In the recent years, Mark Forsyth's "The Etymologicon" grabbed my attention. @kaniths Does three etymology enthusiasts count as a crowd? Or we need more widespread canvassing to gather folks?
I don't interfere in those toll-free revolving doors because ha! no one can break my record of walking out ... When someone is peering through those doors, I don't take it seriously, not because I don't care for them, because, I know that gaze only means: I'm confused and don't understand what I am supposed to do. We all go through those blank moments and we are only human. But, don't even dream of breaking my record. I'm the Czarina of walkouts (haan! you don't know my legend here)
Yay! Nice! @vaikhari is sharing language bytes in Haiku thread! Am just luring her here... Yet again!
#Spanish roots: The first and the only word that comes to my mind is Picaresque from 'picaro', meaning a rogue, the protagonist in a Picaresque novel being one. #Greek and Latin roots: aplenty.
Etymology is not my cup of tea, although I do like it, and could give a try More ideas in Haiku thread... K, Ka, Kaniths Don't lure Vai this way, keep storms wide away The etymology of my virtual name: "Vaikharimaya" - Vai for short - straddling between the diminutive Vai: the articulated utterance and the Anglicized 'Why?' the existential question, in search of epistemological answers to my ontological queries. Maya being illusion, my name is suggestive of the illusion created by speech!!! PS: My actual area is something many an ILite can relate to: diaspora/immigrant fiction.
