Word Game: Language-Related Clues and Lingustic Q&A

[shruth]

A hymn within a hymn?...Ah, well, nearly...its just 'a' letter short!

 

[turbo]

Are you working the psalm/palm thing?

 

[shruth]

Nope. One clue...the shorter word is 7 letters long!

 

[turbo]

Taking a wild swing...psaltery?

 

[siddharth]

How about Chorale/carol?

 

[shruth]

Ok... the smaller word's primarily an aria.

 

[turbo]

Darn! I thought I had it. A hymn book (psalter) inside a stringed instrument (psaltery).

 

[shruth]

Okay...last clue.

The smaller 7 letter word primarily means an italian aria. Drop 'a' letter from its end and prefix it with the inclusive preposition and you are on your way to the bigger word

 

[fuzzyfelt]

incantation?

 

[shruth]

Good job fi...
Your turn to FIddle

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks Shruth, just lucky to get all your good clues.
FIddling away-
This word is derived from 2 O.E. words. The meaning of the word created is about entry to the meaning of things created.

 

[turbo]

Is the word Wisdom?

 

[fuzzyfelt]

nice try
Not wisdom. The first of the O.E. words means inner, step in, entry or threashold, the other word means shape or create. The meaning of the word has been described also as the inner-dwellingness of things, or the meaning they have that lies in a realm beyond subjectivity and objectivity.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

It has much in common with Joyce's 'epiphanies', or Wordsworth's 'spots of time', but the poet who first used the term did so with religious significance.

 

[turbo]

Inspiration?

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Correct prefix.
The coiner also used the term 'instress' to describe how this impluse escapes from the things of the landscape.

 

[selfAdjoint]

This word is derived from 2 O.E. words. The meaning of the word created is about entry to the meaning of things created.

"-spiration" is not O.E.; it is of latin origin ("Dum spiro spero").

 

[fuzzyfelt]

would anyone care to take the next turn?
Maybe there are no great Gerard Manley Hopkins fans here, or maybe no great fans of bad clues!
The word he coined was 'inscape'.

 

[matthyaouw]

If no one else is going...

Originally from latin words meaning a member of a lower class, this word now means quite the opposite.

 

[shruth]

proletariat?
I'm never sure of its meaning usually, nor its spelling!

 

[matthyaouw]

Nope. The word isn't a direct opposite of lower class, but rather something relating to the opposite, usually with negative connotations.

 

[selfAdjoint]

are you thinking of hoi polloi? That's Greek, not Latin, and its literal meaning is the people - the masses, as it were. But it's sometimes used today to refer to snooty upper classes. Not by anybody who knows any Greek, though.

 

[matthyaouw]

Nope, that's not it either.

 

[arildno]

clique, mayhap? Or clientele?

 

[matthyaouw]

Nope.
When adopted into English, the word first meant a member of the lower class who aspires to be a member of a higher class.

 

[arildno]

Was the original word "upstartius"??

 

[turbo]

How about aspirant?

 

[matthyaouw]

Nope. The original latin was sine nobilitate.

 

[turbo]

ignoble - darn

 

[matthyaouw]

Nope. The word is an abbreviation of the original latin.

 

[turbo]

got to be "snob"

 

[matthyaouw]

Bingo. (I hoped someone would get it there. I'd ran out of clues!)

 

[turbo]

This is an old weapon with a name derived from a stinky French word.

 

[turbo]

Used for breaching gates and doors.

 

[matthyaouw]

A Ram, or battering ram?