HOW WORDS MOVE.
HOW MEANINGS MUTATE.

Greek prologos combines pro- “before” with logos “speech or discourse”; this path follows the logos component.

A speech positioned before a performance becomes the prologue.

The Middle English learned form stabilizes as modern legible with later English stress and vowel development.

Literal readability remains primary while discernibility and understandability become figurative extensions.

Middle English legible borrows Late Latin legibilis with English phonological adaptation.

The ability to be read remains the inherited meaning.

Late Latin legibilis is formed from Latin legere “to read” with an ability suffix.

The activity of reading becomes the quality of being readable.

French législation borrows Medieval or Late Latin legislatio with regular Romance adaptation.

Proposal or bearing of a law develops into law-making authority and a body of laws.

Latin legislatio contains legis, the genitive of lēx “law”; this path follows the law component while lātio is modeled separately.

Law is the object being proposed, borne forward, or enacted.

The bound dia- component remains visible inside dialegesthai; no independent sound change is asserted.

Through, across, or between supplies the relational orientation of conversing.

The bound pro- component remains visible inside prologos; no independent sound change is asserted.

Before positions the speech or discourse ahead of the main performance.

The lātio component is preserved inside legislatio alongside genitive legis; no sound change beyond compounding is asserted.

Bearing or proposing supplies the action applied to a law.

Latin lātio is analyzed through lātum / lātus, the suppletive participial material used with ferre.

The general action of bearing or bringing specializes to proposing something for acceptance.

Latin ferre continues the Indo-European *bher- carrying family through inherited Italic phonology and an irregular paradigm.

The core carrying and bearing sense remains stable while Latin adds proposing, reporting, and enduring extensions.

Middle English lawe / laue stabilizes as law while later English vowel history produces the modern pronunciation.

The inherited legal-rule sense expands to bodies of law, professions, and regular principles in science.

Old English lagu continues into Middle English with loss of final unstressed -u and spelling variation including laue and lawe.

Ordinance, rule, and legal order remain central.

Old English adapts a Scandinavian law-word represented by Old Norse lǫg / lög and lag.

What is laid down or put in order becomes a prescribed rule and legal institution.

Middle English arsmetike / arsmetrik is respelled arithmetic under renewed alignment with Latin and Greek.

The counting art remains arithmetic while its domain broadens within modern mathematics.

Middle English adapts Old French and Anglo-French forms; a folk association with ars metrica contributes the extra r in some spellings.

The practical and learned counting discipline remains central.

French arsmetique / arismatike continues Latin arithmetica through regular learned transmission and medieval respelling.

Arithmetic remains the counting discipline.

Latin arithmetica borrows and adapts Greek arithmētikē.

The Greek counting art enters Latin education and mathematical vocabulary.

Greek arithmētikē is built in the arithmos “number” family.

Number or counting supplies the name of the counting art.

English emoticon truncates and joins emotion with icon; this dossier path follows the emotion component.

Feeling supplies the expressive content of the keyboard-character image.

English emotion borrows Middle French émotion with English stress and vowel adaptation.

Movement, disturbance, and agitation develop toward strong feeling and later feeling generally.

Middle French émotion is formed in the Old French emouvoir / esmovoir movement family.

The act or state of stirring and agitation becomes the abstract noun.

Old French emouvoir / esmovoir continues Latin ēmovēre with Romance sound and spelling development.

Moving out or displacing extends to stirring and agitation.

Latin ēmovēre combines ex- / ē- “out” with movēre “move”; this linear path follows the verbal base.

Moving out, removing, or displacing develops an agitation sense.