2022-07-17

Published: 2022-07-17

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-07-17.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• gooey
• gamy
• dilute
• beriberi
• vista
• bellows
• vise
• cap
• sheen
• gorge
• mellow
• narcotic
• drag
• lock
• clack
• dissolve
• rove
• carve
• afoul
• ingrain

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gooey

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• goo + -y

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gamy

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• also gamey
• game + -y

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dilute

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• Latin dīluō (I wash away) <- dis- + lavō (I wash)

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beriberi

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• reduplication of Sinhalese beri (weakness)
• Japanese 脚気 (かっけ)

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vista

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• Italian vista (view, sight) <- visto <- Latin videō (I see)

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bellows

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• plural bellows
• cognate with belly

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vise

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• U.K. also vice
• Japanese 万力 (まんりき)

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cap

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sheen

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• assumed to be connected with shine

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gorge

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• cf. make one’s gorge rise

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mellow

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• probably related to PIE *melh₂- (to grind)

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narcotic

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• Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō, “I benumb”)
• cf. narcosis
• cf. narcolepsy (with λῆψῐς (lêpsis, “seizure”))

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drag

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• “the action of taking in air through a cigarette”

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lock

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• “a strand of a person’s hair that naturally curls or hangs together”

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clack

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• cf. clap, click-clack, clickety-clack

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dissolve

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• Latin dis- + solvō (I release)

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rove

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carve

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afoul

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• a- + foul
• often in form run/fall afoul of

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ingrain

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• also engrain
• in- + grian