2022-07-27

Published: 2022-07-27

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-07-27.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• scuffle
• screw
• iniquity
• contemplative
• tendon
• splay
• gum
• profile
• knot
• anew
• outdo
• mongrel
• continuum
• flog
• yoke
• southerly
• bloodshot
• relic
• waffle
• skive

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scuffle

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• frequentative formation, but not directly connected to English scuff

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screw

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iniquity

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• cf. inequity

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contemplative

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• contemplate + -ive

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tendon

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• Latin tendō (I stretch)
• Japanese 腱

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splay

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• aphetic form of display
• cf. splay tree (if you like algorithms)

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gum

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• Japanese 歯茎

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profile

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• Latin pro- + fīlum (thread)

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knot

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• “a small group of people standing close together”

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anew

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• from of new

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outdo

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• out- + do

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mongrel

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• mung (a mixture) or mang (to mangle) + -rel (suffix forming diminutives, sometimes with derogatory implication) (see also https://koki-yamaguchi.github.io/2021/12/31/rel.html)

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continuum

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• Latin continuum <- continuus (continuous) <- contineō (I hold) + -uus <- con- + teneō (I hold)

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flog

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• probably onomatopoeic
• cf. flap

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yoke

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• PIE *yewg- (to tie together)

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southerly

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• souther + -ly
• cf. easterly, northerly, westerly

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bloodshot

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• blood + shoot

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relic

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• French relique <- Latin reliquiae (remains)

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waffle

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• “to speak or write evasively or vaguely”
• frequentative of waff ((of a dog) to yelp) (now dialect), which is echoic (cf. woof)

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skive

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• French esquiver (to escape)