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Word games for the bored or intellectual; Word origination
Topic Started: Sep 25 2008, 02:23 PM (801 Views)
zeph
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Gimme a word and ill try to think of an origin for it. Example: alive.
Since having the letter 'a' as a prefix to a word tends to make it the opposite of what it would normally be, some might think 'live' originally meant inanimate or dead.

However!

Alive is actually a slurring of 'a life' from 'ye olde times' archaic pronounciation.

Or darth vader either being (in)vader (like insidious for darth sideous) or simply meaning father (german for father is vader.) I think its german anyway.

Gimme a word, any word :D
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darvarda93
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Why aren't they in DoW2?
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Goodbye.
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zeph
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Goodbye stems from two words. Good in this context refers to a positive turn of events, and bye is a farewell.
Duh.
However, goodbye is actually a portmanteau of two words, and thus should be considered a phrase rather than a word, therefore this attempt is considered null and void.
Next! :D
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Sephiroth
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heres 2

locked

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thread








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darvarda93
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Why aren't they in DoW2?
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Lmao...Tempting.
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Sephiroth
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cmon! do it
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zeph
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Thread originates from the celtic 'tread', meaning to walk. One of the purposes of the humble thread was to tie to a child's leg when he went out to play so that his parents could find him.

As for lock, this probably is a slurring of the archaic 'lác', a suffix attached to, among other words, 'réaflác', meaning roberry. The suffix then became a word of its own, a warding against roberry.

I actually had to look up lock, because I wasn't sure how to spell réaflác, or to do the elongated vowel symbol. :(
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Sephiroth
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how do u pronounce those wierd e's and such
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zeph
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Theyre elongated vowels. Raffe laach for example.
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got a link to such site?

in my book, i got a lot of funny lookin letters lol


Deception


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Misery

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oblivion


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electricution

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Edited by Sephiroth, Oct 9 2008, 07:08 PM.
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