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mogEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

Etymology tree Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- Phoenician 𐤀𐤋𐤐 (ʾlp)bor. Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha)bor. English alpha Latin mās Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos Latin -culus Latin masculus Vulgar Latin masclus Old French maslebor. Middle English male English male English alpha male Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kruppazder. Frankish *kruppbor. Vulgar Latin *cruppus Italian gruppobor. French groupebor. ▲ Italian gruppobor. English group English AMOG English mog Derived from AMOG (“alpha male of group”) perhaps influenced by mug (i.e. in mug shot). The word first appeared on fitness forums and imageboards around 2016 and was popularized around 2021.

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mogEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text

Unknown; the Oxford English Dictionary tentatively suggests a connection to the Scottish dialect terms mudge (“to move oneself; to stir”) and muggins.

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mogEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
mogEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text

From MoG (“Machinery of Government”).

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mogEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text

(Canada, Newfoundland) Shortening of lassy mog. Origin unknown; possibly from lassy (molasses) + a dialectal shortening or variant of mug or morsel.

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Why does Köbler print hatia with an asterisk while corpus forms are visible?

Köbler's sigla mark inferred or unattested representations inside his lexicographic system, while the later corpus surfaces inflected forms hatijen, hatie, hata, and hatien and one misleading hatia homograph. The exact source-base difference remains to be reconciled.

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Is bride the same historical word as bird?

No. Bosworth-Toller records brȳd, bride or spouse, separately from brid, the young of a bird; the reviewed bride path follows brȳd.

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Does the cais meaning eye belong to the love–hate lineage?

No. eDIL assigns eye to a separate numbered headword, 2 cais, with its own eye gloss and citation.

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Is this hate verb the same word as feón meaning rejoice?

No. Bosworth–Toller records a separate homographic feón meaning rejoice, be glad, or exult. Shared spelling after contraction does not establish shared sense or ancestry.

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Are all six search hits instances of the hate or harm verb?

No. Buma identifies the Brokmer B 101 hatia as atia "rear" with prothetic h, and Nijdam's translation concerns a mother unable to feed her children.

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Are hatian “hate” and hátian “become hot” one word?

No. Bosworth–Toller lists separate headwords with different vowel quantity, meanings, examples, and Germanic comparisons. Modern typography that drops macrons can hide the distinction.

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Are the family noun kin and diminutive suffix -kin the same morpheme?

No. Merriam-Webster gives the family noun through Middle English from Old English cynn, but derives the diminutive suffix through Middle English from Middle Dutch -kin and Old High German -chīn.

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