spaceturtle8008 t1_ja2fnre wrote on February 26, 2023 at 9:41 AM Reply to comment by Chucks_u_Farley in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged Etumos in ancient Greek means "truth", and etymology was looking for the true meaning of words. A little underwhelming now that I've looked it up I can't lie. Permalink Parent 73
spaceturtle8008 t1_ja2fnre wrote
Reply to comment by Chucks_u_Farley in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged
Etumos in ancient Greek means "truth", and etymology was looking for the true meaning of words. A little underwhelming now that I've looked it up I can't lie.