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OK,tsuwm. I forgot you mentioned the (B) business. Anyway, with my memory, they were new to me. At least I have been having fun searching. I did a lot of looking without success to find either a Latin or a Greek word for "ball of twine." So I sent PM to NicholasW to see if he knows one.
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Dr. Bill glomus -eris n. [clue , skein, ball of thread].From Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htmThere, I hope you're healthy, but to imagine that Ariadne spoke Latin is anachronism of the highest degree.
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Oh, I've just replied privately to this. The Greek might be _klo^sma_ 'clue, thread', related to Clotho the Fate but not to 'clue'; but I can't find a quotation confirming it's the word used in the labyrinth story.
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Dear wwh,
I'll spend a bit of time with your links today. I'm glad Jackie is so happy with her finds! (Jackie, I'll think about your happiness with soft things today, OK, and send you something soft later today.)
And tsuwm: Please see whether you can confirm the word. I misstyped the happiness instead of heathfulness (or was it healthiness? poor, poor brain, mine). But Aristotle wrote about happiness at LENGTH, and health was one of the constituents of happiness, so at least health's been subsumed by happiness--or subtsuwmed.
And Faldage: glomus is such a great sphere you provided here--much mental fodder to chew there.
Best regards to all--the board is percolating along nicely, I think,
WW
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Looks like made-up nonsense to me. There's no Greek root phel- or phelik- that fits. I think it's the result of a blasphemous mating or railway accident between 'euphoria' and 'felicity', me.
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"pilgarlic \pil gor' lik\ (noun): a bald head that looks like peeled garlic".
Jackie gave us the above. Now, is there truly here on Earth a bald head that looks like peeled garlic? I don't think I've seen such a head. It seems the Cone Heads come closest. I've never heard a person say, "Heh! Doesn't that bald head look liked peeled garlic?"
This is very, very puzzling to me.
Bothered regards,
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In the kidney, there are many small spherical structures called "glomeruli" in which tiny arteries and the beginning of the urine collecting tubules are intmately in contact, to allow waste products to pass from blood into the urine. I am still puzzled why the Labyrinth legend did not bring into English a word from one of these two roots. For an interesting site about beginnings of etymology see this URL: http://www.uni-ulm.de/uni/intgruppen/memosys/cunni06.htmYou can't blame me for the anatomically explicit symbol at the beginning.
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I've never heard a person say, "Heh! Doesn't that bald head look liked peeled garlic?"
This is very, very puzzling to me.
Yup. You have just hit the garlic on the head as to why it sounds made up to me.
Looking forward to soft things. Speaking of which: Angel, I'll gladly take all the snow you can send me!
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you guys! you reject actual words like pilgarlic and then blithely accept nonsense like euphelicia, just 'cuz it sounds nice. [now what'd I do with that harumph macro...]
pilgarlic - An appellation given first to a ‘pilled’ or bald head, ludicrously likened to a peeled head of garlic (see garlic-head, garlic n. 3), and then to a bald-headed man, sometimes with insinuation as to an alleged cause (quots. 1619, 1671); from the 17th c. applied in a ludicrously contemptuous or mock-pitiful way: ‘poor creature’. Now dial. in various shades of meaning. Also attrib.
1619 J. T. (title) The Hunting of the Pox: a pleasant Discourse betweene the Authour and Pild-Garlike, wherein is declared the Nature of the Disease, how it came, and how it may be cured. Ibid. i, I ouertooke Pild-Garlike on the way. Ibid. ii, He had of Spanish Buttons store vpon his forehead mixt; And where that they were falne away, there Stooles in place were fixt. 1671 Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Pill'd or Peel'd Garlick, cui Cutis (hoc est Pellis) vel Pili omnes ex morbo aliquo, præsertim Lue Venerea, defluxerunt.
-the Latin word for the day is saepe, often
Minus saepe erres si scias quid nescias.
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Dear tsuwm,
Well, I, for one, don't believe euphelicia should die any sort of death, so I'm going to use it on this board as many times as I think appropriate.
Let's see:
There can follow the redundantly, oh-so-happy being, the euphelician.
And, of course, all states euphelicious.
And, naturally, states eupheliciate.
And--this will make you very happy--the ability to euphelicize, though that one's unsatisfactory. Maybe someone will propose an improved verb.
Did Mrs. Byrne have a bevy of creative souls beating their wings about her, I wonder, filling her whimsical head?
Eupheliciously yours,
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