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Jul 12, 2019

This week’s theme
Words that aren’t what they appear to be

This week’s words
eudemonic
tradecraft
roadstead
sudarium
otherguess

Photo: Niccolò Caranti

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Next week’s theme
Words originating in the moon

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

otherguess

PRONUNCIATION:

(UHTH-uhr-ges)

MEANING:

adjective: Of another kind.

ETYMOLOGY:

An alteration of othergates, from other + gate (path), from Old Norse gata. Earliest documented use: 1632.

USAGE:

“The worlds beyond living and dying, undarkened of doubts and negations, Where other ideals Faith follows and otherguess Gods they call Lord.”
John Payne; Flower o’ Thorn; Villon Society; 1909.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862)

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