Etymology Poems - Poems about Etymology

The eaten word even truer ...

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Punch line ...

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on the still strand our footsteps ebb&flow...

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A word that surely had to go Folks pronounced it 'Knee-grow' Just as with 'shi-tte' ~ It took a big hitt-e _________________________________ Note: 'sbitte' is Chaucerian-era Middle English, pronounced 'shi-teh' and mean- ing 'brown.' Today, we impatient moderns spell it with only four...

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ENTHUSIASM: zest & zeal have divine origins, "en theos" or In God...

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PUNICA GRANATUM So you had a bad day? Think Pomegranate; the inside universe ... that inspired grenades, etymology, history, Jewish numerical blunders ... Roman blunders into Carthage again. Jewish Numerical Blunders as in estimating each Pomegranate has 613 seeds, matching the laws or rules of the Pharisees. The Pharisees were religious, followers of Moses, they said: but Jesus was...

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PUNICA GRANATUM Yes, in Paradise, Adam and Eve ate pomegranate No, to apple-etymology - No, to The French "Grenade" No, more or less 613 seeds (sorry Pharisees and thy 613 Law) Yes, Malum Granatum, no origin in Carthage, Latin Rome's flaw (c)Deo, Pomegranates are mentioned in the 4,000 year-old system of healing, AYURVEDA....

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Where does a word originate? Latin or Greek? What kind of meaning doth the new word seek? Who decided it would be wise to have too, two, and to? Or was this confusion in the language of the once learned few? Did they realize the words they created would be twisted up? Did they realize we would have rhymes...

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we all write together -no independence - words, thoughts, were made for us...

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I What weather will welcome roaming? Any, if it's sunny, she says Off they go, Thomas Hardy tales recalling ... Roaming the veld, let me count the ways - II If we were cattle, we would range If we were bandits we would rove - No roots in "Rome," that's strange? R O A M, it's a word for today, by Jove! III Students would read...

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the roots – i.e. genealogy of words long held me (no pun intended) held spell bound e'en upon fertilization of ova and sperm viz – conception, an acute sensory means n'er got drowned out via the bubbling, dribbling, huzzahing... (from within and without the womb) while in utero, ...

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The etymology of my daughter's name is beauty---Jacinda. My daughter was named after beauty; she has found much more in her name: Earth. I, have discovered a deeper meaning within the fabric of the 7 letters that encompass her name--Redemption. A pure substance in my title: Father, 2 syllables--a family of two--one art-- There...

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The origin of any word May be, on close inspection, Quite obvious, if one inferred The cause of its connection. What brings this up was my surprise When noticing in "smother" That hiding there, without disguise, Is everybody's "mother." Coincidence or little jab? We cannot know for sure; But I would like to take a stab That someone immature, When language first was being made, Had issues with...

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