51吃瓜 of the Day
ken
noun
knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
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English ken comes from the very widespread Proto-Indo-European root 驳苍艒- (and its variants 驳苍脓-, gen-, and 驳峁�-) 鈥渢o know.鈥� The variant 驳苍艒- appears in Greek 驳颈驳苍峁搒办别颈苍 (and dialect 驳苍峁搒办别颈苍), Latin 驳苍艒蝉肠别谤别, 苍艒蝉肠别谤别, and Slavic (Polish) 锄苍补膰 鈥渢o know.鈥� The variant 驳苍脓- forms 肠苍腻飞补苍 in Old English (and know in English); the variant 驳峁嚽�- (with suffixed schwa) yields cunnan 鈥渢o know, know how to, be able鈥� in Old English (and can 鈥渂e able鈥� in English). Ken is recorded in English before 900.
how is ken used?
Books, Mr. Taylor thought, should swim into one’s ken mysteriously; they should appear all printed and bound, without apparent genesis; just as children are suddenly told that they have a little sister, found by mamma in the garden.
Little things, trifles, slip out of one’s ken, and one does not think it matter for surprise; but how so bulky a thing as the Seal of England can vanish away and no man be able to get track of it again–a massy golden disk …
pantofle
noun
a slipper.
More about pantofle
Pantofle 鈥渋ndoor shoe, slipper鈥� comes from Middle French pantoufle, pantophle (and other spellings). The word occurs in other Romance languages, e.g., Occitan and Italian have pantofla (and other spellings), and Spanish has pantufla. Catalan changed the position of the l in original pantofla to plantofa under the influence of planta 鈥渟ole (of the foot)鈥�; compare English plantar (wart). Further etymology of pantofle is speculative. Pantofle entered English in the late 15th century.
how is pantofle used?
“I’ve lost a pantofle!” he whispered desperately.
… your art / Can blind a jealous husband, and, disguised / Like a milliner or shoemaker, convey / A letter in a pantofle or glove, / Without suspicion, nay at his table …
More about carking
Carking derives from Norman French carquier 鈥渢o load, burden,鈥� from Late Latin 肠补谤肠腻谤别, 肠补谤谤颈肠腻谤别 鈥渢o load.鈥� In Old French, i.e., Parisian French, the dialect spoken in the 卯le de France (the region of France that includes Paris), Late Latin 肠补谤肠腻谤别 becomes chargier (which becomes charge in English). Norman French does not palatalize c (representing the sound k) before a, which Old French does; thus in English we have the doublets cattle (from Norman French) and chattel from Parisian French. Late Latin 肠补谤肠腻谤别 becomes cargar 鈥渢o load鈥� in Spanish, the source of English cargo. Carking entered English in the early 14th century.
how is carking used?
Laranger’s answering smile showed no trace of the carking anxiety and deadly uncertainty which filled him at the thought of the future.
If we get our victuals daily we can lift our voices gaily / In a song that chants farewell to carking care.