#etymology

A review of the past week's HiveWord puzzles, including the words' difficulty, solution rates, attempts and obscurity.

Regular Friday posts about the previous week's HiveWords.

The most difficult, hardest and most obscure HiveWords of the previous week.

If "words have meaning." are we obliged to use them as they were originally minted? Or, do they expire? Can we "change" definitions?

Full Metal Ox Day 1823 Wednesday 25, February 2026 Abundance Year Episode 1888 Noxsoma Life Camp: The Myth of Empathy Cosmic Conscientiousness Wellness 1-2-3’s This issues we have with Empathy, are not

Full Metal Ox Day 1778 Sunday 11, January 2026 Abundance Year Episode 1843 Noxsoma Life Camp: Top of the batting order sports fans. Day one of this week. Still month 1, Day 11. This is why we are keepin’

Full Metal Ox Day 1778 Sunday 11, January 2026 Abundance Year Episode 1843 Noxsoma Life Camp: Sol-2-Soul Sunday #67 Quintessence Denigrate the Bacon Another page from the Occulted Lexicon. Resist. Today's

The Noxsoma Chronicles [0079] 12-08-2025 … Day 23659 (Moonday Lunatix Mix) Good Moonday Lunatics, Welcome to a brand-new week on Planet Serenity. How are we going to fight the power this week? We imagine

The Night of … 1670 Funny Archaic Words & Why They Exist There’s not much to rant about at the moment. Status quo. New status quo. We got more work done on the book. I don’t really know “how” to write

The Night of … 1670 Funny Archaic Words & Why They Exist There’s not much to rant about at the moment. Status quo. New status quo. We got more work done on the book. I don’t really know “how” to write

I'm named Earth!

Jetzt weiß ich endlich, wie man Edinburgh ausspricht, was auch für viele Englischsprachler, die keine Schotten sind, verwirrend ist. Der genaue Ursprung des Städtenamens ist nicht ganz klar, es dürfte

Der Black Friday stammt ursprünglich aus den USA und ist der Freitag nach Thanksgiving (Ende November, nächstes Wochenende in den USA), an dem der Handel mit extremen Rabatten Leute zum Shoppen animieren

Image by dall-e3 I like doing etymology researchs to know the real meaning of words, that can totally impact question's interpretations and answers. By reading most of socratics books, with exception of

Antivax in 1914 dictionary. The slur/insult, antivax which we find in this old 1914 dictionary, before the Spanish flu

A Documentary About Fungi

🇬🇧The Polish word "kreda" [eng.: chalk] has its roots in the Latin✝️ "creta" and Old German "kride/krite🇩🇪." In all three of these languages this word was used to describe

Every word has an origin, including the word Nazi, which was used over 2000 years ago by Greek opponents of God to describe people who were in the service of God. How many times in my life have I heard

СКИТІЯ, Сколотія (Скіфія, Скутія, Скуфія). Блок із 2-х марок Укрпошти «Культурні епохи України. Скіфи»: «Битва Скіфів з військом Македонців. 339 р. до н. е.», «Битва Скіфів проти війська Зопіріона —

Let's eat. The news as of late is full of clickbait, but I just won't bite.