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- Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Quark
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2088
Re: Quark
I was surprised by this word history. I ate lots of twaróg when I lived in Poland, but I never realized that the word quark is related to it. According to Polish sources, twaróg has the same root as tworzyć (to create, to make), and to twór (creation, form). Apparently, French fromage is also relate...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:22 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Onymous
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1951
Re: Onymous
Just a small (and pedantic!) spelling correction: Polish singular form for name is imię (second letter i missing).
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Holodomor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3048
Re: Holodomor
Several languages use this letter; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81
- Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Holodomor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3048
Re: Holodomor
If you are interested in this subject, I recommend the book Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum. It's hair-raising.
By the way, the Polish spelling for hunger is głód!
By the way, the Polish spelling for hunger is głód!
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 1:25 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Plain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6541
Plain
This plain word has a large family of relatives: field, palm, plain, plan, planet, Poland, ...
- Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Parlor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3636
Re: Parlor
It seems that Spanish palabra and Portuguese palavra , meaning "word", have the same origin.
- Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:06 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Pareidolia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2060
Re: Pareidolia
I missed it!
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:26 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Pareidolia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2060
Pareidolia
Derived from Greek. An example is imagining that a cloud looks like a human face.
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:20 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: dolma
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2577
Re: dolma
According to Wikipedia, this word is of Turkish origin.
- Sun Sep 18, 2022 1:08 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Traduce
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1664
Re: Traduce
It is really a very misleading false friend because it is so rarely used in English and very frequently in Romance languages!
- Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:21 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Craggy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2505
Craggy
Like in craggy coastline or craggy face. According to Etymoline, could be of Celtic origin.
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 10:25 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Crypt
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2357
Crypt
It seems that this simple word and its derivatives like encrypt, cryptography, cryptocurrency, etc did not appear yet as a Good Word.
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Viva
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1736
Re: Viva
... and Viva the Good Doctor!
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:04 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Crescent
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6774
Re: Crescent
I guess words like create and creation are also derived from PIE k'er-/k'or-.
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:47 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: Delinquent
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3353
Re: Delinquent
Thank you Debbymoge for your kind words!