2022-12-09

Published: 2022-12-09

Words that I added to Anki on 2022-12-09.

The contents were automatically generated except notes part.

word list

• nowness
• mangrove
• cattail
• water
• blackbird
• tarry
• ringleader
• secrete
• bonfire
• piecemeal

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nowness

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mangrove

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• cf. grove

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cattail

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water

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• “an area of water”

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blackbird

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tarry

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• cf. obsolete tary (to vex), obsolete tar (to vex)
• cf. tarry (tar + -y, U.S. /ˈtɑri/)

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ringleader

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• after obsolete idiom to lead the ring

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secrete

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• “to place in concealment” < obsolete secret (to keep secret) < noun secret

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bonfire

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• bone + fire (early form variation seems to confirm that the first element was bone, although the significance of bones in midsummer fires is unclear)

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piecemeal

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• piece + -meal (suffix forming adverbs from nouns with the sense “X by X”, where the X is the first element)
• cf. inchmeal (inch by inch), obsolete drop-meal (drop by drop), etc.
• cf. Latin suffix -ātim, -tim (e.g. verbatim (word for word), obsolete stillatim (drop by drop) (< Latin stillātim < stilla (a drop) > instill))