

Oct 27, 2016 This week’s theme

Words formed by dialectal pronunciation



This week’s words

ornery

passel

sassy

tarnal

raiment

Words formed by dialectal pronunciation A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



tarnal PRONUNCIATION: (TAHR-nuhl)

MEANING: adjective, adverb: Damned.

ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of eternal (as in “eternal damnation”), from Latin aeternus, from aevum (age). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aiw-/ayu- (vital force, life, eternity), which also gave us ever, never, aye, nay, eon, eternal, medieval, primeval, utopia, Sanskrit Ayurveda, aught coeval , and coetaneous . Earliest documented use: 1790.

USAGE: “Why had he let himself get suckered into that tarnal poker game?”

W. Michael Gear; Long Ride Home; Tor Books; 1988.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (27 Oct 1858-1919)





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