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Dear Faldage: I guess I should not have trusted the big fat bee book published by maker
of hive equipment. I can find no substantiation for alleged association of bees and Appian way.
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Possibly it was built by familia Appio (or under their ęgis) and some punny beekeepers thought they'd take advantage of the name to get some free advertising.
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In reply to:
Not to be confused with epiphysis, the places at ends of long bones where a zone of cartilage
gives rise to bone producing elongation of the bone.
Far be it from any of us here to confuse apophysis with epiphysis.
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Hey, Faldage! It just occurred to me to wonder if there is an etymological connection
between Latin "Via" and English "way". I can't find anything helpful.
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Dr. Bill, AHD has way from IE wegh-, to go, transport in a vehicle. Under wei- it mentions that some think that this IE root, meaning to go after something, is the root for the Latin via but says it's more likely from the suffixed form wegh-ya, thus giving you your link between way and via.
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Any connection between wegh and wagon?
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Thanks for the link, Faldage. Those etymological family trees are fun to breeze through. Included in the wegh group was walleyed, and its various definitions are worth looking at: http://www.bartleby.com/61/96/W0019600.html
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Those etymological family trees are fun to breeze through.
I remember a poster from the '60s showing the tangled roots of rock and roll. Some of these word trees would put that to shame.
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