Timeline for "Sick" or "ill"?
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 19:29 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Very, very few pairs of words are totally interchangeable. | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 0:01 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Mar 18, 2014 at 8:24 | comment | added | user69223 | Here's a simple and logic explanation. The origin of sick is from the old Germanic verb: siech which means to have a disease. It was used in Middle High German and refers to people who had leprosy. These people were sent to a: Siechenhaus the resemblance of which can still be found today in the Dutch word for hospital: ziekenhuis....so actually sick would then mean siech = have a disease....whereas hospital simply means a house for strangers. Similar words are: host, hospitable, hostel, hotel and many more...here we have the Latin origin in contrast to the word sick which has Germanic roots. | |
| Jun 1, 2013 at 23:17 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41 | vote | accept | Tomalak | ||
| Jun 10, 2011 at 12:35 | comment | added | Sebastian | Necessary reference for the modern usage of sick ;-) | |
| Apr 19, 2011 at 1:04 | history | edited | Uticensis |
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| Mar 20, 2011 at 1:27 | answer | added | Robusto | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 20, 2011 at 0:22 | answer | added | Noldorin | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 23:43 | comment | added | kitukwfyer | There might be some old, technical difference, but, nowadays, they're used synonymously, at least where I grew up. It'll be interesting if a distinction still exists anywhere... | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 22:22 | answer | added | mplungjan | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 21:46 | history | asked | Tomalak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |