Robyn Davidson

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Australian Writer

Hill Harper

The word 'courage,' one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart. I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be. Live your life.

American Actor

Molly Ivins

Legislative language is governed by a law of etymology that is also the ancient code of the bureaucracy: It doesn't have to be right, it just has to be close enough for government work. If they understand what you mean, it doesn't matter what you say or how you say it.

American Journalist

Michael Chabon

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

American Author

Giambattista Vico

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Italian Philosopher

Joshua Cohen

Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

American Writer

MF Doom

Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.

English Musician

Salman Rushdie

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Indian Novelist

Understand how words relate to historical events and social changes over time.

Historical Connection

Learn how the meanings of words can shift dramatically with cultural and societal evolution.

Language Evolution

Discover the roots of new words and how they enter a language.

Word Birth

Learning the detailed history of a word for a clear and accurate grasp of its meaning.

Precise Understanding

See how the structure of a word has changed along with its definition.

Form to Meaning

Use etymology to clarify when a word's use is suitable or can cause confusion.

Clarity in Usage

 means sanctuary and supposedly there are almost these parallel universe that abide in certain places that if one's reached a level of self-actualization one can slip inside of them but without achieving that level would never even know that they exist so this is really the etymology of the

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 and the world that they longed to be in and therefore to create. And so whether you're talking about a violin piece or a rocket to Mars, there's really no difference between those two things. Like, the word longing itself, the etymology of it literally means to reach for, you know,

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 that I programmed. So what inspired that change in me? What made me think that statistics was actually an interesting thing? It's really because statistics are about us. If you look at the etymology of the word statistics, it's the science of dealing with data

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 I kind of think I'm an expert on the subject. I want to add to the classical etymology of this dance because it matters. Black people will not be erased from the creation, the history and the innovation of twerking. Thank you.

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 typically molded into sticks. Dynamite, which coincidentally is closely related to the word dynasty, has as much to do with familial persuasion as it does etymology. Following in the footsteps of his inventor father,

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 For every locked chest, there is both a key and a lock pick, and the history of keister draws us into this world of petty crime and speculative etymology. Keister may have come from the British dialect kist,

 and phagein, a verb meaning to eat. From flesh-eating stone to stone coffin, it's a fitting etymology for the final resting place of the deceased.

 Every disadvantaged nation, and perhaps our own nation, becomes our patient. So, it's fun to think about the etymology of the word "patient."

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 mr. is a vernacular noise any sound or combination of sounds to understand the etymology of noise we must begin with

Etymology