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BlinEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Blin ብሊና (bəlina), bélina.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗blinEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Middle English blinnen, from Old English blinnan (“to stop, cease”), from Proto-Germanic *bilinnaną (“to turn aside, swerve from”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *leya- (“to deflect, turn away, vanish, slip”); equivalent to be- + lin. Cognate with Old High German bilinnan (“to yield, stop, forlet, give away”), Old Norse linna (Swedish dialectal linna, “to pause, rest”). See also lin.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗blinEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Russian блин (blin, “pancake, flat object”).
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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hostel
A lodging place, especially an inexpensive dormitory-style accommodation, continuing the older hospitality branch shared with hospital and hotel.
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humiliation
The act, state, or instance of humiliating or being humiliated; degradation, disgrace, or shame.
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Middle English / Indo-European
humiliacioun
humbling, abasement, or humbled condition
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- late 14th-century Middle English record
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Middle French / Indo-European
humiliation
act intended to humble; fact of being humble or humbling oneself
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- Middle French, before 1449–1495 record
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Late Latin / Indo-European
humiliātiō
action of lowering; abasement; subduing or humbling through mortification
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- Christian and Late Latin
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 5
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Does feign descend from faint or feint?
No direct descent is established here. The root appendix groups them under the same nasalized shaping formation, while feign has its own documented French and Latin chain.
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Does fiction descend from figure?
No. Latin fictiō and figūra are sibling formations in the fingere and *dheigh- family; neither English word is the parent of the other.
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Was English fiend borrowed from Danish fjende?
No. They are collateral inherited continuations; English specialized the demonic branch much more strongly.
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Does human descend directly from Latin humus, soil?
No. Latin homō and humus are sibling reflexes analyzed under the earth root; hūmānus belongs to the homō family.
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Did humiliation always center disgrace and shame?
No. Christian Latin and historical French include lowering, abasement, mortifying discipline, and self-humbling. Chaucer’s Middle English occurrence appears within a treatment of humility, while current American Heritage definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 5
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Humiliation is evidenced in English before humiliate.
Chaucer’s Middle English humiliacioun occurs in a humility passage; Merriam-Webster reports the English verb humiliate only circa 1534. Christian Latin and French preserve lowering, abasement, mortification, and self-humbling before current definitions center degradation, disgrace, and shame.
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The x of rēx is a whole nominative sound change in one letter.
Latin starts from the bound stem rēg-, adds nominative -s, devoices g to k, and writes the resulting /ks/ as x. Genitive rēgis makes the stem visible—but it is a sibling case form, not an ancestor.
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Human does not descend from humus.
Latin humus and homō are sibling formations under *dhghem-; the English words meet only at reconstructed depth.
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Hotel and hospital are siblings, not parent and child.
French hôtel continues Old French hostel, while hospital follows a related learned route through the same Latin guest-accommodation family. English hotel is not simply a shortening of English hospital.
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Intelligent did not descend from English intelligence.
English intelligent is borrowed from a Latin present participle. Intelligence follows a sibling French and Latin abstract-noun route; the words meet deeper than modern English.
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