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1. go to OneLook.com
2. enter 'whore'
3. go to the 1st entry, which is the AHD
4. see WORD HISTORY therein
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That "One Look.com" is really quite a resource. I sure
wish they had things at the fingertips like this back
when I was teaching. Research would have been a breeze.
Thanks.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I can imagine what that would cost on a retired teacher's income. The site here from one look is great: I just have to learn to use it more.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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I keep a button for it at the top of my browser, use it all the time.
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whore, charity, kamasutramitchpowell, I'd recommend the inexpensive American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Calvert Watkins if you're interested in learning more about this sort of thing.
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Eta (no not you): incidently "dekh" is the word in Hindi for "look" also has connection to "show". I don't think Hindi dekhanā is related to Latin dicere. The reflexes of Proto-Indo-European *deik- in Hindi are deś and desī. It seems Hindi dekhanā is related to Sanskrit dṛś "to see", from the PIE root *derḱ- which means a dekko is related to tarragon.
Last edited by goofy; 03/24/11 06:28 PM.
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I find often times that the etymology of the word in the "A.Word.A.Day" email informs me of the roots of a given word, and then lists other words supposed to share the same root, which don't seem to be very related at all.
I find myself wishing that Anu would spot these difficult-to-see correlations and maybe help me out somehow; perhaps by pointing out where the similarity lies.
Yes I see that too, but do you need to be spoon-feed? I like to do my own research, that way I get more out of it.
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