I,too, thought it must be related to liminal, used in theological or in the Black wedding tradition, of entering a new life.

I spent a long time looking at synonyms for *threshold* b/c I couldn't think of liminal.You would be amazed at how many synonyms!

I notice there is an (h) before the spelling of this word. is this the usual (h) before many words in Old English?

thingamabobism? Is this a real word? How will I ever remember it?

French came from Latin, but how do know it didn't come from a cognate long before this in Greek γίγνομαι? How do judge linguistic distance? thanks!

1. φιάσκο (fiasco)
2. πλήρης αποτυχία (complete failure)

Whenever I google something, it also gives me the translation into Greek.
I have no idea whether this is classic, koine or modern Greek. I suspect modern Greek.