2022-08-12

Published: 2022-08-12

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-08-12.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• dreary
• vibrant
• bucket brigade
• dastardly
• axle
• heyday
• ingot
• wafer
• tempest
• snowblower

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dreary

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• Old English dréorig (gory, bloody, sorrowful, sad)
• cf. drear (a poetic shortening of dreary)

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vibrant

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• Latin vibrō (I shake)
• cf. vibe, vibrate, veer?, etc.

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bucket brigade

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• Latin briga (contention)

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dastardly

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• dastard (dishonorable person) + -ly <- perhaps dased (dull, stupid, inert) + -ard (suffix often indicating someone who is in a specified condition in a pejorative way) (cf. bastard, coward, dullard)

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axle

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• cognate with axis

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heyday

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• probably NOT hey + day

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ingot

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wafer

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• early modern Dutch waefel, whence waffle

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tempest

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• Latin tempestās (season, weather, storm) <- tempus (time)
• cf. contemporary, tempo, temporary, etc.

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snowblower

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