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Word Matrix: Beau<beau> “pretty, handsome, charming,” from Anglo-French beute, Old French biauté, earlier beltet, from Vulgar Latin *bellitatem (nominative bellitas), from Latin bellus “pretty, handsome, charming” Words Sums Beau ->...
BlogJanuary 20, 2021- Word Matrix: Augur(e)
<augur(e)> “predict, foretell” from French inauguration and directly from Late Latin inaugurationem, presumably originally “installment under good omens,” from in– “on,...
InformationJanuary 19, 2021 - Word Matrix: Thank
<thank> “thought, gratitude; think, feel,” from Old English þancian, þoncian, compare related Old English noun þanc, þonc Words Sums Thank + s -> thanks Thank...
InformationNovember 13, 2020 - Word Matrix: Sign
<sign> from Latin signum “identifying mark, token, indication, symbol; proof” Words Sums (248) Sign -> sign Sign + s -> signs...
InformationJuly 17, 2020 - Word Matrix: Leve
I always misspell the word <relevant> as <*relavant> based on a thinking that <relevant> is related to <relative>. I recently decided...
InformationJanuary 22, 2020 - Word Matrix: Anxi
<Anxi> ”uneasy, troubled in mind” from Latin anxius Note: The base is <anxi>. The <i> is part of the base because...
InformationSeptember 28, 2019 - Word Matrix: Doodle
While reading some books about the history of words earlier this year, I came across the word <fopdoodle>, which means “a...
InformationSeptember 10, 2019 - Word Matrix: D (“set, put”)
Back at the end of July, I investigated the words <add> and <addition>. I undercovered the base <d>, but I misidentified...
InformationSeptember 3, 2019 - Word Matrix: Ply (“lay, fold, twist”)
I recently came across a tweet in a Twitter conversation that argued that studying morphemes is not always helpful. A morpheme...
InformationAugust 20, 2019 - Word Matrix: Stude
<stude> “learn, examine, show zeal for” from Old French estudiier, from Medieval Latin studiare, from Latin studium “study, application,” originally “eagerness,”...
InformationJuly 28, 2019 - Word Matrix: D (“give”)
After returning from a two-week family vacation last weekend, I found my sleep schedule completely messed up. Instead of tossing and...
InformationJuly 26, 2019 - Word Matrix: Marsupe
<marsupe> “purse, pouch” from Modern Latin marsupialis “having a pouch,” coined from Late Latin marsupium “pouch, purse” Word Sums Marsupe +...
InformationJuly 21, 2019 - Word Matrix: Galact
<galact> “milk, milky” from Greek gala (genitive galaktos, stem galakt-) “milk” Word Sums Galact + ic -> galactic Extra + Galact...
InformationJune 17, 2019 - Word Matrix: Cat
<cat> “feline” from Old English catt Words Sums Cat Cat + s -> cats Cat + ed -> catted Cat +...
InformationJune 6, 2019 - Word Matrix: Pter
<pter> “feather, wing” from Greek pteron Word Sums Pter + ide + ine -> pteridine Pter + ide + ine +...
InformationMay 28, 2019
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