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

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The forum discussion centers on a word game involving language-related clues and linguistic questions. Participants provide hints about words, often derived from etymology or linguistic characteristics, and others guess the words based on these clues. Key examples include the word "mongoose," which refers to a mammal from India, and "pneumonia," linked to a lung disease with Indo-European roots. The game encourages engagement with language and etymology, fostering a community of language enthusiasts.

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  • #91
Rhymes with a common private-aircraft accessory.
 
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  • #92
Usagee of the weapon was relegated primarily to that of a signaling device in the 18th C.
 
  • #93
turbo-1 said:
Usagee of the weapon was relegated primarily to that of a signaling device in the 18th C.

Why don't you just tell us? We should have a rule that if we don't get it after three hints, we declare ourselves stupid and the poser tells the answer.
 
  • #94
selfAdjoint said:
Why don't you just tell us? We should have a rule that if we don't get it after three hints, we declare ourselves stupid and the poser tells the answer.
OK, but you have to come up with the next word.

The word is spontoon. It's a short lance, and its use persisted into the American Revolutionary War, although it certainly wasn't used primarily as a weapon at that late date. (Give me a Brown Bess or a Charleville any day!) I'll try to pick better words in the future.
 
  • #95
Okay spontoon - spittoon. Hmmm.

There was an autobiography of an ex-num called "I Leap over the Wall". The word I am thinking of could replace two of the words in that title.
 
  • #96
selfAdjoint said:
Okay spontoon - spittoon. Hmmm.
There was an autobiography of an ex-num called "I Leap over the Wall". The word I am thinking of could replace two of the words in that title.
a bound = a wall / to bound = to leap?
 
  • #97
Good answer but bound was not the word I was thinking of. The word is a synonym of one of your definitions, though.
 
  • #98
A wild shot...
closure = wall
closed=over (finished)
?
 
  • #99
vault = leap over
 
  • #100
turbo-1 said:
vault = leap over


Kee-rekt! A vault is also a kind of wall (one that curves over). Give that man a see-gar and make him give us another word.
 
  • #101
An amount necessary to make a group or thing whole.
 
  • #102
The word has a polite-sounding homonym.
 
  • #103
You may have encountered the adjective form of the noun in plane geometry class.
 
  • #104
complement?
Damn...i should've put it up at the first clue, but I felt silly about my last attempt!
 
  • #105
Ta-Dah! You're at bat, shruth! What's your word?
 
  • #106
A hymn within a hymn?...Ah, well, nearly...its just 'a' letter short!
 
  • #107
Are you working the psalm/palm thing?
 
  • #108
Nope. One clue...the shorter word is 7 letters long!
 
  • #109
Taking a wild swing...psaltery?
 
  • #110
How about Chorale/carol?
 
  • #111
Ok... the smaller word's primarily an aria.
 
  • #112
Darn! I thought I had it. A hymn book (psalter) inside a stringed instrument (psaltery).
 
  • #113
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:smile:
 
  • #114
incantation?
 
  • #115
Good job fi...
Your turn to FIddle :wink:
 
  • #116
Thanks Shruth, just lucky to get all your good clues.:smile:
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.
 
  • #117
Is the word Wisdom?
 
  • #118
nice try :smile:
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.
 
  • #119
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.
 
  • #120
Inspiration?
 

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