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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:12 pm
Fancy a game?
How about name synonymous english words with different roots..
I give you an example:
to supervise (latin root) and to oversee (germanic root)
have fun XD
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:54 pm
I was just thinking about this a few days ago actually...
Enemy (L)
Fiend (Germanic)
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Tc Frorleivus Almus Ph Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:49 pm
Paternal - fatherly. From Latin pater, patris (masculine), "father".
Father. From old Norse faðir (masculine as well), "father".
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 4:11 am
cool smile
work and labour
fast and rapid
and dare i suggest zucchini and courgette lol )
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Tc Frorleivus Almus Ph Captain
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:17 am
You didn't label the etymology. =P
Kamikaze. From Japanese: 神風 - "divine wind". Pronounced "kamikaze" so as not to confuse it with "shinpuu" (having the same kanji), a sort of typhoon that was thought to have protected Japan in its former history, thus "divine wind".
Suicide. From Latin: Sui- from the genitive singular of suus, sua, suum "oneself" and -cide from "cædere", to strike down; to kill.
(When prefixes are chained onto verbs in Latin, often the first vowels [particularly long or open vowels] will shift to shorter ones. Thus, æ will become just i, so cædere + a prefix will have it become -cidere.)
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:23 pm
oops you caught me red-handed...
etymology wasn't provided....but it wasn't that hard to guess...
on the other hand, i suggested zucchini and courgette, but i forgot to mention marrow...
Thanks Mizu for all the detail...japanese language is soo pretty and it sounds so precise...i am starting to learn the very basics, and already it is so logical..it all makes sense...
Alright...back on track...
false (latin) and a strange one....fake...wich is believed to be originating from german although it has had many distortions along the way
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:27 am
Took me a while but I have one...
Doleful - Latin, from "dolor", "pain"
Mournful - Germanic "maurnan" or "mornan", "to mourn"
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:57 pm
thanx HMC...
it doesn't have to be the hard ones (although they are nice)
how about annual (Latin) and yearly (probably germanic)...
=^.^=
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:25 pm
Poultry - Old French, from "pouletrie" (domestic fowl)
Fowl - Old English, from "fugel" (bird), goes back further to a general Germanic word for them
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:28 pm
Ooh....that was a good one smile
welll...i guess hungry and famished are almost as synonymous as hippocampus and seahorse smile
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:35 pm
Henneth Annun Poultry - Old French, from "pouletrie" (domestic fowl) Fowl - Old English, from "fugel" (bird), goes back further to a general Germanic word for them Funny you should mention this one... It seems that a few animal word pairs in English are like this. Some say that the one from French is usually reserved for naming edible food (sorry for the redundancy there), while the one from Old English is used to refer to cattle. pork - Latin porcus (French porc) pig - Old English beef - Latin bovem (French boeuf) cow - Old English
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:03 pm
VanillaMatcha Funny you should mention this one... It seems that a few animal word pairs in English are like this. Some say that the one from French is usually reserved for naming edible food (sorry for the redundancy there), while the one from Old English is used to refer to cattle. pork - Latin porcus (French porc) pig - Old English beef - Latin bovem (French boeuf) cow - Old English I confirm that and add the mutton/sheep pair to the list: mutton - Old French, from Gallo-Goman mŭltōnem, ultimately of Gaulish origin (French mouton) sheep - Old English, ultimately of Germanic origin To close the mini-chapter on the alimentary domain, aliment is from Latin alimentum while food is from Old English. Likewise, in the greetings department, salutation is from Latin salutatio while greeting is Germanic in origin.
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