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Topic Options #70576 - 05/19/02 02:00 PM castanets wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 My grandmother owned a pair made of ebony, that were shaped much like scallop shells. I was surprised to find the etymology is from "chestnut" which comes from genus "castanea". I could never imagine my definitely proper grandmother dancing seductively. castanets .pl. 5Fr castagnette (sing.) < Sp castaOeta, dim. of castaOa < L castanea, CHESTNUT: so named from the shape6 a pair of small, hollowed pieces of hard wood, ivory, etc., held in the hand by a connecting cord and clicked together with the fingers to beat time to music, esp. in Spanish dances Top #70577 - 05/19/02 02:17 PM Re: castanets Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Requires a lot of manual dexterity to play a pair of castanets. The ones we have at school for small children to use are made of hardwood of exceptional quality, and they're on a stick. All you have to do is turn the stick back and forth in your hand, and the castanets attached at either end will beat about and click like the dickens. Music teachers have been known to go insane when out-of-control children run around the music room clicking catanets. The chestnut connection is interesting. I don't think they look like chestnuts personally. How do you spell canasta? Wonder what the derivation of that word is? Canasta and castanets should go into a song together. Top #70578 - 05/20/02 05:55 AM Re: castanets consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean Canasta means basket. Much more than that yo no sé That's Spanish for I don't know. My dictionary gives no etimology for this word. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8431 Members 16 Forums 13688 Topics 209834 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members supermatthias, prabakaran, sce, Eva, sylviasuper 8430 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 33 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 93 jenny jenny 62 wofahulicodoc 61 endymion6 57 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 31 Faldage 16 Buffalo Shrdlu 15 zmjezhd 13 teepee 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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