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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024- SembleMiddle English · word_semble_vb_1
Semble, v. to seem; sembeles, pr. s., S2.—OF. sembler; Lat. simulare.
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Semble, v. to assemble, PP; sembled, pt. s., S2; semblyt, S3; semblyde, pl., S3.—OF. asembler; Late Lat. assimulare.
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Semble, sb. assembly, S2, PP; semblee, S2.—AF. assemble, assemblee.
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verb · noun · adjectivehistorical form
collect
To bring together, accumulate, infer, or receive; from Latin colligere, literally built with a together-prefix and legere.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗verbhistorical form
feign
To invent, fabricate, make a likeness, or pretend; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin fingere, to shape or fashion.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
kayık
The Turkish word for a small boat, continued from Old Turkic kayguk and analyzed within an internal Turkic history rather than the Inuit qayaq family.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗adjective · nouncontrarian claim
omniscient
Knowing everything; borrowed from a learned Latin all-knowing formation in the science and scire family.
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openprobableposition text
What exactly resembled a mouse?
The naming may refer to the shape of a muscle, a tendon, or movement visible beneath the skin; the reviewed sources do not select one mechanism as secure.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did feign originally mean only to lie?
No. Its recorded Middle English field includes make, fabricate, make a likeness, dissemble, and pretend.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Was omniscient assembled in English from omni plus science?
No. English borrowed a learned Latin all-knowing form; the compound analysis belongs inside Latin, not as a new English coinage from the modern noun science.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
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Hatred is medieval—and its -red means neither red nor “more.”
Middle English assembled hate with a dying native element for a state or condition. The compound is younger than its parts; below the secure Germanic hate family, even the celebrated PIE root remains a qualified and semantically difficult proposal.
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The perfect-looking boat cognate is false.
Greenlandic qajaq and Turkish kayık resemble one another and name similar craft, but their documented prehistories separate into Proto-Eskimo and Old Turkic.
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Feign once included making, not only pretending.
Middle English feynen could mean make, fabricate, or make a likeness as well as dissemble or pretend, continuing the fingere shaping family.
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