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EKE
PRONUNCIATION: (eek)
MEANING: verb tr.: To earn a living, to supplement, or to make something last with great effort. (usually used in the phrase “to eke out”)
adverb: Also.
ETYMOLOGY: For verb: From Old English ecan (increase). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aug- (increase), which also gave us auction, author, auctorial, authorize, inaugurate, augment, august, auxiliary, nickname (“a nickname” is a splitting of the earlier “an ekename”, literally, an additional name), and wax (the verb). Earliest documented use: 888.
For adverb: From Old English éac. Earliest documented use: 700.
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EKOE - a kind of tea without the usual diuretic effect (no P)
EPE - a male duelling sword
'EFE - what the Cockney called the Chief of Police of Mexico City
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HAP
PRONUNCIATION: (hap)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Chance; fortune; 2. An occurrence.
verb tr.: 1. To occur; 2. To clothe, cover, or wrap.
ETYMOLOGY:
For noun and verb 1: From Old Norse happ (good luck). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kobe (to suit, fit, or succeed), which also gave us happen, happy, hapless, and mishap. Earliest documented use: 1350.
For verb 2: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1390.
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HAAP - a large musical instrument with many strings, when played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
HAPO - a curly-haired comedian who never-spoke but did play the haap, when he appeared in Boston
IHAP - where he got a pancake breakfast during these Boston appearances
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AVER
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-VUHR)
MEANING: verb intr.: To affirm; to assert; to allege.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French averer, from Latin ad- (to) + verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1380.
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EAVER - a small animal or bird that lives in the overhang of your roof
AVCR - what we used to use to record TV programs for later viewing
AVEBR - one of the principal parts of dyslexic speech
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LAM
PRONUNCIATION: (lam)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To beat soundly; to thrash.
verb intr.: To escape from the law.
noun: An escape from the law.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1595.
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LKM - Royal Dutch Dyslexic Airline
LPM - a Long-Playing record changer in the Southern hemisphere (rotates 33 1/3 times a minute, but left instead of right below the equator)
LAI - a flower garland in Oahu presented to a Bostonian on arrival
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ANA
PRONUNCIATION: (A-nuh)
MEANING: noun: A collection of items, such as quotations, anecdotes, etc. related to a person, place, etc.
adverb: In equal quantities (used in prescriptions).
ETYMOLOGY: For noun: From the suffix -ana (collection of information related to someone or something, as in Shakespeareana, Victoriana, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1728.
For adverb: From Greek aná (of each). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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AFNA - Mozart's Symphony Numba 35
ANGA - that negative feeling when you ask a simple question and you get the wrong ansa
GNA - a female gnu
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RETRAL
PRONUNCIATION: (REE-truhl, RE-)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Located at the back. 2. Backward.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin retro (back). Earliest documented use: 1822.
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FRETRAL - toward the fingerboard of your guitar
TETRAL - quadripartite
PETRAL - 1. toward Fido (or Felix, or whomever)
2. gas for yer Morris Minor
3. a stormy bird
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LATERITIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (lat-uh-RISH-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Resembling, made of, or the color of, bricks.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin later (brick). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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LATHERITIOUS - causing the washing machine to fill with suds and overflow
LAGERITIOUS - keeping everyone well-supplied with beer
LATER IT'S IOUs - the results of sitting in now at a poker game where you're clearly outclassed
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COADJUTANT
PRONUNCIATION: (ko-AJ-uh-tuhnt)
MEANING:
noun: A helper or an assistant.
adjective: Helping or cooperating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin co- (with) + ad- (about) + juvare (to help). Earliest documented use: 1708.
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COEDJUTANT - my junior officer is female
COADJITANT - fellow-troublemaker
COADJUVANT - one of several additives that enhance the reaction
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EMPYREAN
PRONUNCIATION: em-PIR-ee-uhn, -pye-REE-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to the highest heaven, believed to contain pure light or fire.
2. Relating to the sky; celestial.
3. Sublime; elevated.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin empyreus, from Greek empyrios (fiery), from pur (fire). Other words derived from the same root are fire, pyre, pyrosis (heartburn), and pyromania (an irresistible impulse to set things on fire). Earliest documented use: 1500. A synonym of the word is empyreal.
NOTES: This is where the idiom “to be in seventh heaven” (a state of great bliss) comes from. In many beliefs, heavens are a system of concentric spheres, the seventh heaven being the highest and a place of pure bliss.
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EMMYREAN - TV-award-winning
EMPTYREAN - totally devoid of substance. Sometimes synonymous with EMMYREAN, above
AMPYREAN - describing hoity-toity electricity
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NIVEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (NIV-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Snowy or resembling snow.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin niveus, from nix (snow). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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SNIVEOUS -- a disparaging term applied cruelly by the members of the Marauders' Gang: having the characteristics of Severus Snape
NAIVEOUS - inspiring innocence in the onloooker
FIVEOUS - pentacular
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