Read the blog post Religious terminology: further benefits of blessing and the devious ways of cursing If we expect someone to save our souls, this person won't be an etymologist, because no language historian knows the origin of the word soul, and without a convincing etymology, how can anyone save the intangible substance it denotes? Yet nothing prevents us from looking at the main attempts to decipher the mysterious word. Read the blog post Soul searching, or the inscrutable word 'soul' (part one) It is our inability to find a convincing solution that causes astonishment and disappointment.
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This is the second and last part of the series on the origin of the word "soul." The perennial interest in the etymology of this word should not surprise us. Read the blog post Souls searched for but not found (part two) Seven years ago, I devoted a post to it but today I know more about this tricky compound and can write the story in a different way. My today's word is bonfire, which turned up in texts at the end of the fifteenth century. Read the blog post Osteological folklore: 'bonfire' This week, the Oxford Etymologist answers readers questions in his latest etymology gleanings. Word Origins.And How We Know Them Etymology for Everyone Anatoly Liberman From Our Blog Etymology gleanings for March 2022
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