Queen on COVID-19: “This time we join all nations across the globe”
Funny that one meaning of we is ventilate.
Word work is illuminating. This is just a first look at multiple meanings.
Meet=Huntsmen was weird.
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we-
Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to blow.”
It forms all or part of: Nirvana; vent; ventilate; weather; wind (n.1) “air in motion;” window; wing.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit va-, Greek aemi-, Gothic waian, Old English wawan, Old High German wajan, German wehen, Old Church Slavonic vejati “to blow;” Sanskrit vatah, Avestan vata-, Hittite huwantis, Latin ventus, Old English wind, German Wind, Gothic winds, Old Church Slavonic vetru, Lithuanian ;jas “wind;” Lithuanian ;tra “tempest, storm;” Old Irish feth “air;” Welsh gwynt, Breton gwent “wind.”
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will (n.)
Old English will, willa “mind, determination, purpose; desire, wish, request; joy, delight,” from Proto-Germanic *wiljon- (source also of Old Saxon willio, Old Norse vili, Old Frisian willa, Dutch wil, Old High German willio, German Wille, Gothic wilja “will”), related to *willan “to wish” (see will (v.1)). The meaning “written document expressing a person’s wishes about disposition of property after death” is first recorded late 14c.
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meet (n.)
1831 in the sporting sense, “a gathering of huntsmen for fox-hunting,” from meet (v.). Later of bicyclists gathering for a ride, etc.
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again (adv.)
late Old English agan, from earlier ongean (prep.) “toward; opposite, against, contrary to; in exchange for,” as an adverb “in the opposite direction, back, to or toward a former place or position,” from on “on” (see on (prep.) and compare a- (1)) + -gegn “against, toward,” from Germanic root *gagina (source also of Old Norse gegn “straight, direct;” Danish igen “against;” Old Frisian jen, Old High German gegin, German gegen “against, toward,” entgegen “against, in opposition to”)
In Old English, eft (see eftsoons) was the main word for “again,” but this often was strengthened by ongean, which became the principal word by 13c. Norse influence is responsible for the hard -g-. Differentiated from against (q.v.) 16c. in southern writers, again becoming an adverb only, and against taking over as preposition and conjunction, but again clung to all senses in northern and Scottish dialect (where against was not adopted). Of action, “in return,” early 13c.; of action or fact, “once more,” late 14c.
Any thoughts on POTUS publicly always being so complimentary of the Queen? Just for show or is she disgusted with some of the things her family has been engaged in over the years and has been flipped?