2022-07-22

Published: 2022-07-22

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-07-22.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• inelegant
• wield
• heartfelt
• sheath
• wag
• gossamer
• quartz
• deem
• infirm
• gypsum
• seedling
• fern
• pedantry
• lieu
• drove
• pickle
• cure
• bore
• tromp
• sap

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inelegant

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• in- + elegant <- partly ex- + legō (I choose)

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wield

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heartfelt

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• heart + felt

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sheath

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• Germanic root skaiþ- (to separate), whence shed

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wag

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• root of Old English wagian (to shake)

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gossamer

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• goose + summer
• gossamer was chiefly observed in the summer when geese were supposed to be in season?

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quartz

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• German Quarz
• probably from a pet form (with -z) of Middle High German querch (dwarf) (cf. Heinz as a pet form of Heinrich)
• Japanese 石英

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deem

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• Gothic dôm-s (judgement), whence doom

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infirm

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• Latin īnfirmus (weak) <- *in- + firmus (strong) -> Latin firmō (I make firm) -> English affirm, confirm, firmament, terra firma (dry land) (Latin terra + firma as feminine nominative/vocative singular form of firmus), etc.
• often used as the infirm

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gypsum

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• Latin gypsum (gypsum)

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seedling

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• seed + -ling (suffix denoting “a person or thing belonging to or concerned with what is denoted by the primary noun”, which is distinguished from -ling as a diminutive suffix, although it may have some diminutive sense)

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fern

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• Japanese シダ

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pedantry

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• pedant + -ery
• perhaps from Latin pedagogo (pedagogue)
• hence perhaps ultimately from παῖς (child) (cf. pediatrics)

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lieu

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• usually in form in lieu (of)
• French lieu (place) <- Latin locum (place) (cf. Latin locō, English loction, allocate, etc.)

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drove

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• cognate with drive

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pickle

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• cognate with pick

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cure

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• “to treat plant or animal products by drying, smoking, salting, etc., to preserve it from decay”

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bore

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• cf. Japanese ボーリング

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tromp

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• variant of tramp

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sap

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• Old English sæp
• maybe cognate with Latin sapiō (I have taste)