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SantEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
* As an English and French surname, variant of Saint (as a Dutch surname, from a doublet, sint; also Vansant). * As an Italian surname, variant of Santo. * As a Jewish surname, variant of Sand, itself from the English noun sand. * As an Indian (Maharashtra)/Hindi surname, from संत (sant).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024013
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WORD DOSSIERS
adjectivehistorical form
lieb
The German adjective for dear, beloved, kind, or welcome, inherited through Middle High German liep and Old High German liob from the Germanic adjective branch also represented by Dutch lief and Gothic liufs.
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lief
The Dutch adjective for dear, sweet, or kind and its substantivized use for a beloved person, inherited through the Germanic adjective branch.
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nice
Pleasant, kind, or precise today; a fourteenth-century borrowing whose early senses included foolish, simple, wanton, and fastidious.
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German / Indo-European
lieb
dear, beloved, kind, pleasant, welcome
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- Present-day German
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Middle Dutch / Indo-European
lief
dear, beloved, pleasant
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
nice
pleasant, agreeable, kind; also precise or discriminating
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- 19th century–today
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did nice originally mean pleasant?
No. Merriam-Webster reports early foolish, wanton, silly, and simple senses; pleasant or agreeable becomes prominent much later.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 7GRADE Aranked reveal
Nice crossed from ignorance to approval.
Latin nescius “ignorant” became foolish or wanton, then fastidious and precise, and finally pleasant or kind.
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