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cantillate
verb (used with object)
to chant; intone.
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Cantillate 鈥渢o chant鈥� derives from Late Latin 肠补苍迟颈濒濒腻谤别 鈥渢o sing low, hum,鈥� a verb formed from the stem cant- 鈥渟ing鈥� and the diminutive element -ill-. Cant- ultimately derives from the verb canere 鈥渢o sing鈥� and is the source of many words related to song, pronunciation, persuasion, and even light magic. While cant- is preserved in words such as cantor, in many stems, Latin a- often becomes e- after a prefix is added; this is how cant- becomes the cent- element in accent (from Latin accentus 鈥渟peaking tone鈥�) and in incentive (from Latin 颈苍肠别苍迟墨惫耻蝉 鈥渟etting the tune鈥�). Because Latin ca- often becomes cha- in French, the Latin stem cant- is visible today in the French-derived word enchant. Cantillate was first recorded in English in the early 1860s.
how is cantillate used?
Shmuly鈥檚 voice, in contrast to his father鈥檚, was high pitched and extraterrestrially sweet, as if the hormonal shakedown had not quite taken. You leaned forward with your elbows planted on the balcony railing, … your brow resting against the steeple of your fingers pointed heavenward as he melodically cantillated the tropes he had so perceptively deconstructed the night before.
Perhaps unique among international teams, the … group … face to the west and sing the national anthem with a gusto that threatens to require a second warm-up. Before that though comes another ritual, an emotional chant known as the Inifresi, a pledge to their motherland in Chamorro. Standing in a tight circle the entire playing, coaching and support staff cantillate the words as if coming from the depths of their soul, a paean to their forebears.
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tchotchke
noun
an inexpensive souvenir, trinket, or ornament.
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Tchotchke 鈥渁n inexpensive souvenir, trinket, or ornament鈥� is a borrowing of Yiddish tshatshke, from obsolete Polish czaczko 鈥渢oy, trinket鈥� (modern Polish cacko), which is cognate with Czech 膷补膷办补 and Russian cacka, of the same general meaning. These Slavic terms are all most likely of imitative origin; with the addition of the diminutive suffix -ka or -ko, the original forms (Czech 膷补膷补 and both Polish and Russian caca) appear to be reduplicated syllables that are typical of baby talk. In case you thought it was a little strange that a word for 鈥渢oy鈥� or 鈥渢rinket鈥� would derive from a doubled syllable, bear in mind that English contains the similarly reduplicated term knickknack. Tchotchke was first recorded in English in the late 1960s.
how is tchotchke used?
For a reminder-through-association to work well it needs to be distinctive鈥攕omething out of place that will catch the eye. To remind yourself to mail a stack of bills in the morning, for example, you might put a tennis ball on top of them 鈥�. And to remind employees to fill out the sign-up sheet for the holiday party, place it next to the brand new large snow globe on the receptionist鈥檚 desk and let people know to sign-up when they see the distinctive new tchotchke.
Michael Zegen, a star of 鈥淭he Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,鈥� is an unabashed hunter and gatherer. It runs in the family …. He says that tchotchkes make him feel good. 鈥淔rom the time I was a kid I鈥檝e been into knickknacks,鈥� said Mr. Zegen, whose collectibles include an orange Snoopy and a robot.
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Bildungsroman
noun
a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
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Bildungsroman 鈥渁 novel concerned with the maturing of a young protagonist鈥� is a direct borrowing from German. The word comprises two nouns: Bildung 鈥渇ormation, education鈥� and Roman 鈥渘ovel.鈥� Despite its 鈥渇ormation鈥� sense, Bildung is not related to English building; rather, it derives from German Bild 鈥渋mage, picture,鈥� which is cognate to Old English bilithe 鈥渋mage,鈥� a term with no descendants in modern English. Roman derives via a long chain of semantic shifts from Latin 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉 鈥渙f or relating to Rome.鈥� 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉 yielded the adjective 搁艒尘腻苍颈肠耻蝉 鈥渋n the Roman style or pattern,鈥� and this became Old French romanz 鈥渟tory in the vernacular language鈥� and then French roman 鈥渘ovel,鈥� which German borrowed as Roman. English Roman preserves the original meaning of 搁艒尘腻苍耻蝉. Bildungsroman was first recorded in English in the first decade of the 1900s.
how is Bildungsroman used?
鈥淭he Chiffon Trenches鈥� has been sold as a juicy tell-all鈥�; revenge 鈥� in written form. It is that, kind of. But it is also a bildungsroman about an African-American boy from the Jim Crow South who made it to the front row of the Parisian fashion world by way of Interview, WWD, Ebony, Vanity Fair and, above all, Vogue.
Today, Latinx writers are writing their own versions of the bildungsroman, but with a twist. In novels like Angie Cruz鈥檚 Dominicana and Ernesto Qui帽onez鈥檚 罢补铆苍补, protagonists are educated not once, but twice: first, in mostly Spanish-speaking families and neighborhoods; and later, in the English-speaking society outside the home.
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