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[Dixonary] Rnd 3121 Wariangle Results
Well now, a very even round and Dave is the winner and I gained a D3
Take it away Dave I found this word while reading Tolkeins "Lost Tales"-- Tolkein apparently worked on the fall of Gondolin using notes on the back of proof sheets from OED (where he was working) the proof sheets referred to etymology of Wariangle: this was about 1921 - see extended*etymology - which sounds remarkably like Tolkein so I have posted most of the OED Definition last updated 1921 /Obsolete/.*1. A name formerly given to the Shrike or Butcher-bird, either the (Great or European) Grey Shrike ( /Lanius excubitor/) or the smaller red-backed Shrike ( /L. collurio/). See shrike n.2 Apart from the doubtful Old English form and two obscure passages in Middle English the evidence for the existence of the word is almost solely drawn from dictionaries, glossaries, and dialect collections of doubtful value, some of which perhaps merely echo quot. 1598*. See quotation from Paul a few rounds ago: “Vladimir Nabokov, in a memorable phrase, called /the nonsense that harmful drudges carefully transport from one dictionary to another/” *Etymology: *? Old English /weargincel/ shrike (Sweet: authority not known). Compare Old High German (Middle High German) /warchengil/ , /wargengel/ , /wargingel/ , etc. ‘cruricula’, etc. (Steinmeyer-Sievers, Diefenbach), German /wargengel/ , /warkengel/ (with very many local variants due to different etymologizing alterations; as /würgengel/ , /quasi/ ‘destroying angel’). Compare also Middle Low German /worgel/ , Old High German (Middle High German) /wargil/ , /warigel/ , /wergil/ , /worgel/ (Bavarian dialect /wörgl/ shrike, Salzburg /wörgel/ greenfinch). All these forms appear to be diminutives of Old Germanic /*wargo-z/ murderer: see wary n. The Old English word, if genuine, perhaps preserves most nearly the original form. For the suffix compare Old English /húsincel/ , /túnincel/ , /þéowincel/ , etc. (all without umlaut). Compare Old High German /-inklî(n/ . It remains, however, very remarkable that in German or in later English there is no trace of /-k/ forms with the single exception of /warwinckle/ in quot. 1618 at sense 1. As there is no evidence of the word later until Chaucer, the Middle English and later forms are perhaps in part due to, or influenced by, some continental form. The prevalent form of the ending, /-angle/, /-ingle/, is perhaps partly due to association with hang v.(owing to the habits of the shrike). In early times the first element would assist this etymology: compare Old English /weargtréo/, warytre n.gallows. Such an association was apparently present in early German: compare such forms as /wurgelhâch/, /wurgelhâhe/, /warchengil/, /warkengel/, etc. 1598**T. Speght /Wks. G. Chaucer/ Annot. Bbbb v /Warriangles/ Be a kind of birdes full of noyse and very rauenous, preying vpon others, which when they haue taken, they vse to hang vpon a thorne or pricke, & teare them in pieces and deuoure them. And the common opinion is, that the thorne wherupon they thus fasten them and eate them, is afterward poysonsome. In Staffordshire and Shropshire the name is common *================================================ ====== # Def for Round 3121 Wariangle submitter voted for Votes from votes Total 1 seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Dan 4,9 Efrem 1 3* 2 periodic gathering to evaluate readiness of men for combat Judy 11,12 3 plate armor to protect the elbow Efrem 1,9 Debbie E 1 1 4 [Obs.] a name formerly given to the Shrike or Butcher-bird, either the (Great or European) Grey Shrike ( /Lanius excubitor/) or the smaller red-backed Shrike ( /L. collurio/). OED Online 2020 Shani, Paul, Dan 2 D3 5 in a fortification, a corner where an intruder would not expect one Tim B 8,10 6 a sorcerer or magician Tim L 8,14 Deborah F 1 1 7 /Obs./*used as a term of contempt or abuse [ME /wari/*'felon, outlaw, villain' + /engle /young male prostitute] Paul 4,14 Alan 1 3* 8 befuddled. Debbie E 10,3 Mike, Tim B 3 3 9 the Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus). Mike 8,14 Deborah F, Efrem, Dan 3 3 10 bent; crooked Tony Tim B, Debbie E, Alan 3 3 11 n. a structure where two outer walls meet at an acute angle Deborah F 6,9 Judy 1 1 12 any self-intersecting irregular polygon wherein each acute angle has a corresponding complementary angle and each obtuse angle has a corresponding supplementary angle Ryan Judy 1 1 13 a metal ring welded to the nose of a bomb to reduce its penetration in earth or water Shani 4*, 14 2* 14 (Archaic) a lowland Jute Dave Mike, Tim L, Shani, Paul 4 4 * ===no def=== Alan 7,10 Dan 3* Judy 0 Efrem 1 (JohnnyB) D3 Tim B 0 Tim L 1 Paul 3* Debbie E 3 Mike 3 Tony 3 Deborah F 1 Ryan 1 Shani 2* Dave 4 Alan 0 -- *JohnnyB* -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. 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