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#122216 02/07/04 12:55 AM
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Date: Wed Apr 17 00:41:45 EDT 1996
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--ana

1. ana \'an-*\ av [ME, fr. ML, fr. Gk, at the rate of, lit., up] : of each
an equal quantity - used in prescriptions
2. ana \'an-*, 'a:n-\ n or ana or anas [-ana] pl 1: a collection of the memorable sayings or table talk of a person 2: a collection of anecdotes or interesting or curious information about a person or a place

In prescriptions ana used to be very often written "aa" with a line over it. "cum" meaning "with" was "c" with a line over it. "sine" meaning "without" was "s" with a line
over it. "q" meant "every". "Noc" was "night". And the handwriting was so bad that it lead to many errors.

And for suffix of a collection, I think it is often "-iana".


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Many of your abbreviations were based on medieval Latin ones. I used to use the cum and sine abbreviations in my class notes in college. Lawyers and doctors, learned professions. The root of ana is related to the na in naprapathy.


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Dear jheem: I never heard of naprapathy before. I had difficulty finding etymology.
A system of therapeutic manipulation based on the theory that morbid symptoms are dependent upon strained or contracted ligaments in the spine, thorax, or pelvis.

Origin: Bohemian napravit, to correct, + G. Pathos, suffering

What fools these mortals be.


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Bohemian napravit

Bohemian! What's the age on that dictionary you consulted? It's been called Czech (or Czechoslovakian) for quite some time now. (I wonder, you never heard of Moravian as a language.) Anywho, náprava 'correction' from napravit 'to correct' from na 'to, on' + pravý 'true, correct'. (Cf. Russian pravda 'truth', also name of newspaper.)


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Dear jheem: now you've got my biting my tongue trying to
remember the joke about Isvestia and Pravda. No truth in
one, and no something else in the other.


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the joke about Isvestia and Pravda.

I guess it would be no news in one or truth in the other. Izvestie means news; ultimately from the same root as wit and history.


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The joke, as I remember it, is there's no news in Pravda and no truth in Isvestia.


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Thanks, Faldage, I'd never heard the joke, but it occurred to me after I posted that it might be a chiasmus.



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