2022-01-20

Published: 2022-01-20

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-01-20.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• slag
• fissure
• woolgathering
• flaunt
• potter
• granary
• cartload
• nasal bridge
• batch
• quell

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slag

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fissure

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• from Latin findō (I split)
• Don’t see the images unless you want to see those of “anal fissure”

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woolgathering

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• “dreamy imagining”
• because gathering wool is an activity that can be done without thinking?

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flaunt

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potter

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granary

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• from Latin grānum (grain)

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cartload

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• “a large amount of something”

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nasal bridge

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batch

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• Obsolete meaning “the process of baking” <- Old English bacan (to bake) -> whence English bake

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quell

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• possibly related to English kill (arguably via Old English cwellan (to kill)), but the OED says it is difficult to explain, since the corresponding word for kill is not found in the cognate languages