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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: How Tender are you...? #163875 11/30/2006 8:04 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland (a) frail, sensitive, (b) to offer, (c) and a person who tends. (a) is a mere homonym of (b) and (c). It has a different latin root: the adjective tener(um) vs. the unrelated verb tendere Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted How Tender are you...? ParkinT 11/30/2006 1:52 PM Re: How Tender are you...? zmjezhd 11/30/2006 3:06 PM Re: How Tender are you...? AnnaStrophic 11/30/2006 4:00 PM Re: What Tender are you...? Aramis 11/30/2006 7:37 PM Re: What Tender are you...? of troy 11/30/2006 7:47 PM Re: How Tender are you...? wsieber 11/30/2006 8:04 PM Re: How Tender are you...? Buffalo Shrdlu 12/01/2006 2:07 AM Re: How Tender are you...? ParkinT 12/01/2006 6:55 PM Re: How Tender are you...? TEd Remington 12/01/2006 7:20 PM Re: How Tender are you...? Zed 12/01/2006 7:24 PM Re: How Tender are you...? Aramis 12/01/2006 7:28 PM Re: How Tender are you...? AlimaeHP 12/02/2006 12:34 AM Re: How Tender are you...? Jackie 12/02/2006 3:15 AM Tender.....It is everywhere AlimaeHP 12/02/2006 6:31 AM Re: Tender.....It is everywhere ParkinT 12/04/2006 7:12 PM Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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