Subhumerate
-
- Senior Lexiterian
- Posts: 656
- Joined: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:23 am
- Location: Michigan, United States
Subhumerate
To carry on one,s shoulders. ''He subhumerated the big bag of flour into the kitchen.''
- Slava
- Great Grand Panjandrum
- Posts: 8202
- Joined: Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:31 am
- Location: Finger Lakes, NY
This appears to make it an error that made it into history.humerus
1706, "bone of the upper arm," orig. (14c.) "shoulder," a misspelled borrowing of L. umerus "shoulder," from PIE *omesos (cf. Skt. amsah, Gk. omos, O.N. ass, Goth. ams "shoulder").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Return to “Good Word Suggestions”
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Ahrefs [Bot] and 4 guests