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Pine

Postby mnichols0 » Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:00 pm

The noun and verb forms of Pine have different origins and completely different meanings. The noun form refers to an evergreen coniferous tree. Its Old English roots [ha] ultimately derive from Latin pinus and was reinforced by the French pin.

The verb form of Pine means to suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart, as in "Thelma pined away after the death of her pet roach." The Old English word pinian is of Germanic origin.

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Re: Pine

Postby Slava » Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:51 am

The verb may also be related to penal, and thus punishment.

I wonder if perhaps we shouldn't speak of the 'forms' of this word. Shouldn't we think of them as two different words that happen to be spelled and pronounced the same?
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