51吃瓜 of the Day
nescience
noun
lack of knowledge; ignorance.
More about nescience
Nescience, 鈥渓ack of knowledge, ignorance,鈥� comes straight from Late Latin nescientia, a noun formed from nescient-, the stem of 苍别蝉肠颈脓苍蝉, the present participle of 苍别蝉肠墨谤别 鈥渢o be ignorant, not to know,鈥� and the Latin (and Greek) noun suffix –ia. In Latin (and other archaic Indo-European languages, with the exception of Greek), ne– was the original negative for sentences: thus the pair 蝉肠颈艒 鈥淚 know,鈥� and ne蝉肠颈艒 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know.鈥� The usual sentence negative in Classical Latin is 苍艒苍, probably from earlier noenum “not one (thing),” itself a strengthening of ne with oenum (Classical Latin 奴苍耻尘). Something similar happened in English, the adverb not being a reduced form of nought (also naught), a compound of the negative adverb ne and the noun wiht 鈥渢hing, wight.鈥� Nescience entered English in the first half of the 17th century.
how is nescience used?
Verily, geology might be termed “man’s nescience of creation,” wherein he best learns how little he can know.
The unexpected vantage point can help induce a beneficial nescience that disarms us of existing tools and systems of thinking.
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More about macushla
Macushla is a phonetic English spelling of the Erse (Irish Gaelic) mo chuisle, literally 鈥渕y pulse,鈥� or translated more romantically, 鈥渕y heartbeat, my sweetheart, darling.鈥� The mo-, ma– in macushla, mo chuisle means 鈥渕y鈥�; cushla, chuisle 鈥減ulse, heartbeat, vein,鈥� comes from an earlier Erse cuisle, of uncertain etymology, but most likely a borrowing of Latin pulsus 鈥渟triking, beating, pulse.鈥� Cuisle appears in another Irish idiom: a chuisle 鈥渕y dear, darling,鈥� in full, a chuisle mo chro铆, literally, 鈥減ulse of my heart.鈥� (The phrase Mother Machree 鈥淢other dear鈥� entered English in the first half of the 19th century.) The a is the Gaelic vocative particle, a particle used in direct address, and equivalent to English exclamation O. 颁丑谤辞铆 鈥渉eart鈥� comes from Old Irish crid-, which closely resembles Welsh craidd, Latin cord-, Greek kard-, and Hittite karts, all meaning 鈥渉eart.鈥� Macushla entered English in the first half of the 19th century.
how is macushla used?
Come, macushla, come, as in ancient times / Rings aloud the underland with faery chimes.
To hear teenagers quietly speaking Irish. To read Maurice O’Sullivan’s Twenty Years A-Growing. To find out that the endearment “macushla” comes from the Irish word for pulse. These are the things that would encourage a person to look more closely at the Irish language.
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haimish
adjective
homey; cozy and unpretentious.
More about haimish
The Yiddish adjective haimish (also spelled heimish) means 鈥渃ozy, comfortable, unpretentious,鈥� pretty much the same as English homey. Heimish comes from the Middle High German adjective heimisch (German heimisch), a compound of the Middle High German noun heim 鈥渉ome,鈥� from Proto-Germanic haimaz, the same source as Old English 丑腻尘 (English home). The adjective suffix –ish comes from Proto-Germanic –iska-, source of English –ish. The Proto-Germanic suffix is related to the Greek suffix –iskos, used to form diminutive nouns such as 苍别补苍铆蝉办辞蝉 鈥測outh,鈥� a diminutive of 苍别补苍铆补蝉 鈥測oung man.鈥� Heimish entered English in the mid-1950s.
how is haimish used?
Here, the antique and modern furniture you see spotlighted in pricey Manhattan store windows doesn’t look special; it just looks right, and comfortable — not to mention somehow new when combined this way. Call it haimish modern.
It鈥檚 irresistibly haimish, with exposed-brick walls and, behind the oak-and-tile bar, an eighteenth-century map of Rome. Everybody knows everybody, by sight or by name鈥攄iners, waiters, staff.
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