2022-11-25

Published: 2022-11-25

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-11-25.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

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• culminate
• goony
• zing
• pizzazz
• medicinal
• Necco
• gable
• insubstantial
• rococo
• mortar

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culminate

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• Latin culmen (peak) < PIE *kel- (to be prominent)

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goony

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• cf. gony (a simpleton), Scots gonyel (a stupid fellow)

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zing

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• zing (to move or progress rapidly, or with energy) < zing (representing a sharp, high-pitched ringing or twanging sound, esp. one made by a rapidly moving object) which is of imitative origin
• cf. ding, ting, jing, ping, *ring (an act of ringing a bell), etc.
• cf. zinger

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pizzazz

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medicinal

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• French medicinal (medicinal) < Latin medicīna (art or practice of healing)

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Necco

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• its core product is Necco wafers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necco_Wafers)

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gable

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• PIE *ghebh-el- (head) > cephalic

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insubstantial

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rococo

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• French rococo < roc- (in rocaille with reference to the rocaille ornaments frequently featuring in 18th-cent. artwork), with reduplication of the second syllable

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mortar

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