I've always found this subject interesting and educational.
Tonight I was filling out a ticket to do some training at work and it got me thinking of the word "train".
Here's one for the masses:
A topical one:
Add one of your own as you think of them...or not. Maybe I'm the only word nerd.
Tonight I was filling out a ticket to do some training at work and it got me thinking of the word "train".
Train - Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘delay’): from Old French train (masculine), traine (feminine), from trahiner (verb), from Latin trahere ‘pull, draw.’ Early noun senses were ‘trailing part of a robe’ and ‘retinue’; the latter gave rise to ‘line of traveling people or vehicles,’ later ‘a connected series of things.’ The early verb sense ‘cause (a plant) to grow in a desired shape’ was the basis of the sense ‘educate, instruct, teach.’
Here's one for the masses:
Gun - Middle English gunne, gonne, perhaps from a nickname for the Scandinavian name Gunnhildr, from gunnr + hildr, both meaning ‘war.’
A topical one:
Hillary - is a given and family name, derived from the Latin hilarius
Add one of your own as you think of them...or not. Maybe I'm the only word nerd.