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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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Are there any contemporary English words derived from same root as Euterpe & Terpsichore?
Euterpe & Terpsichore both contain the same etymological word root:
Euterpe
muse of music, from Greek Euterpe, literally "well-pleasing," from eu "well" (see eu-) + terpein "to delight, please" …
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Which is longer: snooze, nap, kip, 40 winks or siesta?
Siesta: a regular period of sleep or rest in the afternoon in some hot countries; an afternoon nap or rest
Dates regarding etymology:
Nap: Possibly the oldest one here. … Etymology seems to onomatopoeia referring to a snore. …
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crazy as a pet coon under a red wagon
For theories of etymology, as Sven points out, this half of the phrase could itself be a mixing up of two different crazy metaphors -
crazy old coot (a water-fowl whose name was used for silly … [Source]
Strengthening the assumption of a Southern etymology, an early example of crazy coons is from the reported speech of a Kentuckian, as written by a temperance advocate from Boston in 1873. …
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Etymology/Origin behind using "bitching" in a positive sense
Etymonline.com mentions this:
bitch (v.)
"to complain," attested at least from 1930, perhaps from the sense in bitchy, perhaps influenced by the verb meaning "to bungle, spoil," which is recorde …
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How did a "ton" come to mean "one hundred" of something?
The etymology specifies the origin of the word to not just be from "cask" but from a specific measure/size of the cask.
From Etymology Online:
"measure of weight," late 14c. …
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