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  • tsiping is a Tewa word for 'flaking stone' or flint

    March 1, 2023

  • crinoid is derived from 'lily-like' thus a featherstar is a movable lily.

    February 23, 2023

  • a crinoid's crinet

    February 23, 2023

  • traveling thoughts: lily-like is the etymological source of 'crinoid'

    hence a featherstar is lily with feathers, too!

    February 23, 2023

  • crinoid survivors :

    both fauna and flora:

    seaglider:

    mobilehome:

    limestone-smiths:

    traveltrailers:

    February 23, 2023

  • metaforest

    February 16, 2023

  • wear where ware.... beware bee wear bewhere?

    February 13, 2023

  • rays praise peaks

    raze prey peaks

    raise pray peaks

    February 10, 2023

  • the minions have a condensed word for all their Christmas carols - nana, nana, nana ..... just benana. (Yes we have no benanas, we have no benanas, today...only yesteryear's tears from laughing all the way) It is like condensed galactic milk - a milky way???

    February 9, 2023

  • ....or a grade of gasoline?

    February 9, 2023

  • Is it froogie (frugie) too or was that a dance craze in the mid-sixties? (or perhaps it is a frug puppy?)

    February 9, 2023

  • definition of a prism's focus - where the sun's rays meet;

    and/or a family ranch -where sons raise meat as an enterprise and sere prize meat (with a branding iron and/or a grill)

    February 9, 2023

  • See zroomed.

    May 19, 2021

  • Groomed for zoom

    May 19, 2021

  • Ruzuzu - possessor of thousands of words - see comments on zenzontle

    April 7, 2021

  • from Nahuatl language: zentzontlahtōleh ('zenzontle' is a shortened form)(means "mockingbird", literally possessor of 400 words, statements (songs?))- zenzontontli ("a count of 400") + tlahtōlli ("language, word, statement") + eh ("possessor of")

    April 7, 2021

  • boldly colorful

    April 3, 2021

  • Isquitzuchil is a Nahuatl word meaning "place where flowers abound", and is the source of the name for Esquipulas, a place of pilgrimage in Guatamala.

    April 3, 2021

  • Another word for faith? ....if one thinks of the Greek etymology or Irish etymology derivation of ‘faith’. Irish word is ‘iris’ or ‘iress’.


    February 5, 2021

  • See 3Dfruitti or 3Dfrutti !

    February 5, 2021

  • Also see wikiwam or wiquoam.

    February 5, 2021

  • Putting Descrates before the wikiwam or the wiquoam?

    Just (jest) horsing around (a round)!

    February 5, 2021

  • 3Dscootie - to scoot through wormholes and be whole afterwards

    February 5, 2021

  • 3Dscootie misread as 3Dfruiti ???

    February 5, 2021

  • wigwam in Delaware language

    February 5, 2021

  • Wiquoam in Delaware. Where you aware?

    February 4, 2021

  • ‘Their house’ in Algonquin. Also spelled wigwam

    February 4, 2021

  • farthest known object in the solar system. A flyby was performed by new horizon satellite. Named after the word for 'cloud' in the Powhatan - an Algonquin language of the Virginia Maryland tidewater region'

    December 24, 2020

  • must be related to sopa (sofa) fan tastick!

    November 29, 2020

  • Middle-ant-hill

    November 21, 2020

  • Mattapany means roughly "path to the water"

    October 4, 2020

  • Old English yoke (noun form) geocian is the verb form of yoke.

    from IE root yeug- to join

    yoga is from sanskrit yugā to join mind and spirit

    October 4, 2020

  • It is so moss more! I wood lichen it to a utopia....with a mud wall around it!

    September 16, 2020

  • A spiral shape that symbolizes growth, strength and peace, used in Māori art.

    April 18, 2020

  • Tup that!.....certainly makes one tuppencely pensive!?

    January 10, 2020

  • I wonder what a cloud boulevard looks like?

    January 10, 2020

  • HumpityDumpity.....drumpityfrumpity....(finish as you will)

    January 10, 2020

  • The original name for St. Marys - 1st European settlement in Maryland - was changed from the Native American name of Yascomoco. The  Native Americans moved across the river to develop a new village.

    November 28, 2019

  • The original name of St Mary's in Maryland was the native american name 'Yascomoco'.

    November 28, 2019

  • Water cress is cruciferous and closely resembles hemlock. Of course, hemlock was what socked Socrates.(but not Aristotle) Have you gotten to the underdeveloped flower stem of the rutabaga yet? There must be a chiastic (see chiasmus) double cross in this dream...somewhere near the sundog  perhaps!

    Aristotle noted that "two mock suns - parhelion - rose with the sun and followed it all through the day until sunset."

    Artemidorus in his Oneirocritica ('On the Interpretation of Dreams') included mock suns amongst a list of celestial deities. Solanum, a species of solanaceae, is also known as "sunberry."

    November 21, 2019

  • broach:proach

    November 8, 2019

  • exscape?

    November 8, 2019

  • ...on the thresh'hold!

    November 8, 2019

  • Class-ic (ik) glass-ic (ik) action?

    Often stirring action!

    Unsol-va-ble mist story?

    September 10, 2019

  • ry not never and ever more or less - poetry always leads you to unexpected places and spaces

    August 3, 2019

  • compare to xenophobia

    August 2, 2019

  • kimo -'mountain lion' in Tiwa

    August 2, 2019

  • seehopia - the other end of the spectrum is xenophobia

    the question for us in the US is where we fall in this spectrum?

    August 2, 2019

  • all places without/in le(a)d to/from Roma roam

    July 31, 2019

  • Agustin is the Spanish spelling of Augustine.

    The Very Large Array, VLA, radio telescope is located in the San Agustin Plains of New Mexico. It is one of the most isolated regions in the United States and is a dry lake bed surrounded by volcanic mountains.

    Has anyone ever before noted the VLA's purpose is to listen for whispers of radio waves from light years away, even to the edge of the universe and how it relates to the name of the area. It is 'a gust in' ... a whisper. I once read the energy its antennas receive is less than the energy in a falling snowflake. It is like listening for falling dew.

    July 26, 2019

  • An airy choral leads, not follows, as a corollary.

    July 26, 2019

  • By what quarter 30 and a quarter square yards? That is the perch and perching question!

    July 9, 2019

  • such -a word 'swich'

    July 4, 2019

  • prime on a spreeeeeee

    June 30, 2019

  • queme

    June 30, 2019

  • a past wish

    June 30, 2019

  • a providential landing

    June 30, 2019

  • a female nomenclator

    June 30, 2019

  • or and?

    June 28, 2019

  • Not if it is rotten the cor(e) and is named Ashley Bass.

    June 27, 2019

  • They must be Cumminites!

    June 27, 2019

  • Do I cotton to cottonpoly? Nothing could be finer (qtn) than cotton - except perhaps nanocotton (an oxycotton?- no moron or less on).

    qtn is the semitic root of cotton.

    cyt+un are the welsh roots.

    June 27, 2019

  • Joy Harjo's memoir 'Crazy Brave' is a great read. Her journey is a meracious wonder.

    June 25, 2019

  • Suuvu(‘at) is the Hopi noun for eyebrow. Sùuyep is ‘right here at this very place’.

    June 23, 2019

  • Haverford's etymology meaning is 'crossing at the confluence'.

    February 1, 2019

  • sperate could be added. It is a great de- word!

    February 1, 2019

  • corn-on-the-cob

    January 6, 2019

  • turkey

    January 6, 2019

  • actively apt

    November 19, 2018

  • common understanding

    November 19, 2018

  • point of view

    November 19, 2018

  • awe

    November 19, 2018

  • chasms galore

    July 15, 2018

  • hummingbirds!!!

    July 9, 2018

  • can dew??

    June 6, 2018

  • can is heavy light. can is uncanny,canny hope.

    June 5, 2018

  • a nifty anagram with a process built in!

    February 2, 2018

  • stories stories store (will well store)

    January 24, 2018

  • latent stories

    January 24, 2018

  • stored stories

    January 24, 2018

  • storage stories

    January 24, 2018

  • Let the record skip the skipping!

    December 10, 2017

  • .......on/and/on/and/yonder....ponder!

    December 10, 2017

  • minor is major and/or major is minor!! and all that is twain!?!

    December 10, 2017

  • My mother's perseverating phrase, 'Don't perseverate on it!!!' that I am just beginning to understand (stand under) again and again. I believe it was required even after the 40 years since she died. But I (am still (emtionally))shouldn't perserverate on it! Go fig-u-rate that???

    December 10, 2017

  • windlass - going around in square circles with no telling where you will wind up.

    December 9, 2017

  • just another whim

    December 9, 2017

  • a parable of reflections

    November 22, 2017

  • between wonder and yonder...rhymes with thunder

    November 16, 2017

  • We alter (alltour)!

    August 26, 2017

  • It is much easier to re-late relate with it's 20-20 back vision than to go the route of the few touring (futuring) - looking to the mystery and its best path of faith and hope!

    August 26, 2017

  • following retail and figuring where it is headed!

    August 25, 2017

  • own lea nest?!

    August 24, 2017

  • agend is also a verb!

    August 24, 2017

  • What harmonitics?

    August 24, 2017

  • does it drag on?

    August 24, 2017

  • Is there a danger in wallowing 'swaddling'?

    August 17, 2017

  • edges beyond contest.

    August 6, 2017

  • becoming cosmology

    August 3, 2017

  • Complements abstract

    May 29, 2017

  • less than zest

    May 28, 2017

  • be yon der

    May 28, 2017

  • too close for comfort? Tiffany, Louis Comfort! Southern Comfort?

    May 26, 2017

  • a word to get wound up in (and blown away) and see where you wind up?

    May 26, 2017

  • Quelle ramage!

    April 26, 2017

  • flow, flower, flour

    April 24, 2017

  • Not hinging upon!

    April 19, 2017

  • Dutch tulip inflation and speculation

    April 19, 2017

  • How do you maps spam?

    April 14, 2017

  • as opposed to ordeal.

    February 9, 2017

  • Of shady origins and cast in the shadows of uncertainty

    January 17, 2017

  • With verve........

    December 31, 2016

  • pine or pine tree in Chinese

    December 11, 2016

  • to be set 'on edge' (attuned ,if you will) as any good story or song will do.

    December 9, 2016

  • to separate, distinguish - certain and cern - as in discern - are closely related. another closely related word is 'crisis'. all three words are derived from the indo-european root krei-


    December 9, 2016

  • ...a cheap twill (tweeter)???

    November 23, 2016

  • a valid description of trump.

    November 23, 2016

  • caring for technology - maintaining links in good relationship

    November 10, 2016

  • see wonen also

    October 12, 2016

  • Wring, wrang, wrung, wrong?

    June 16, 2016

  • adds a new meaning to char coiled??

    June 3, 2016

  • foraging for metaphors - looking for straws.

    May 31, 2016

  • Is a scout a 'shooter of words' in the metaphorest? (see entry from IE roots below)

    skeud-
    To shoot, chase, throw.
    Derivatives include shoot, shut, and scuttle.1

    shoot, from Old English scēotan, to shoot, from Germanic *skeutan, to shoot.
    shot1, from Old English sceot, scot, shooting, a shot;
    schuss, from Old High German scuz, shooting, a shot;
    scot, scot and lot, from Old Norse skot and Old French escot, contribution, tax (< "money thrown down");
    wainscot, from Middle Dutch sc(h)ot, crossbar, wooden partition. a-d all from Germanic *skutaz, shooting, shot.
    shut, from Old English scyttan, to shut (by pushing a crossbar), probably from Germanic *skutjan.
    shuttle, from Old English scytel, a dart, missile, from Germanic *skutilaz.
    sheet2, from Old English scēata, corner of a sail;
    sheet1, from Old English scēte, piece of cloth. Both a and b from Germanic *skautjōn‑.
    scout2, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skūta, mockery (< "shooting of words");
    shout, from Old Norse skūta, a taunt. Both a and b from Germanic *skut‑.

    Pokorny 2. (s)keud‑ 955.

    - <i>American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots</i>

    February 29, 2016

  • an inbound path?

    February 26, 2016

  • a crinoid is also called a feather-star!

    February 23, 2016

  • fluff?

    February 23, 2016

  • Is there a corresponding concept for data grace- a process that separates intelligence from information. Here intelligence is information that makes a difference. (I was tempted to say 'matters', but refrained). Gregory Bateson wrote about the concept of intellegence and information in "Mind and Nature",

    Data grace would have the properties of light as opposed properties of gravity.

    February 23, 2016

  • added dimensions - a place to get your kicks and a route to Lost Angleless

    February 20, 2016


  • *singing*.... Get back Get back to where the jet black jetbacks belong

    February 19, 2016

  • usually done in a group of two - pair of grin (peregrine)

    February 18, 2016

  • jabberwocky

    February 13, 2016

  • jobberywacky

    February 13, 2016

  • the SPAM cinehumor aludes me

    February 12, 2016

  • ...A long time ago in a galaxy far (fair), far (fare) (affair ways) away....

    January 30, 2016

  • occasional things bumped into when ones eyes are closed?

    January 30, 2016

  • blunder

    January 30, 2016

  • blundersome

    January 30, 2016

  • rarele?..rarene?...rarere?, rarese? Where is your setting?

    January 30, 2016

  • an anagram of circumference

    January 27, 2016

  • mercuric fence

    January 27, 2016

  • a fractal like pi(e)!
    a mercuric fence

    No one can measure the exact distance around the crust of a pie. The smaller the measure the greater the circumference of the pie. If you used a nano measure the distance around the crust of the pie would approach infinity! And as Annie Dillard said: "Infinity is too small to find!"

    A anagram of 'circumference' is 'mercuric fence'

    January 27, 2016

  • Why isn't a cakewalk called a picumference? Who would be pie-faced then?

    January 27, 2016

  • What if one loses track of tack? Would that be a tacky situation? Would it be a task hard to tackle? (Did you grasp tack?)

    What type of tack would you use on a tackey horse? If the tack wasn't to the tackey's liking would the horse become techy?

    January 27, 2016

  • duckling

    January 26, 2016

  • If utopia means 'no place' in Latin, then snowtopia means 'snow place'

    January 26, 2016

  • I haves always just called them crinoids.

    January 25, 2016

  • myst'ry - a word on Garm 's one list

    January 20, 2016

  • No Garm, no fowl?

    January 20, 2016

  • myghty - obsolete spelling of mighty
    myrkky - Finnish word meaning poison


    January 20, 2016

  • hymn cyst myth jynx sync lynx gwyn rhythm synthy are some fairly common ones not on the list.

    January 20, 2016

  • The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo - Gerard Manley Hopkins

    January 17, 2016

  • Is there such a vessel as a hahanap or is that too remote (moat) a possibility?

    January 16, 2016

  • Would the word for spin-wet be spindrift?

    January 11, 2016

  • fleeting, unholdable, dashing, flighty

    January 8, 2016

  • fuguescent??

    January 8, 2016

  • a very English word - Albion (Albio in Celtic and Alba in Gaelic)

    January 8, 2016

  • present present - no whoas (woes)?

    January 8, 2016

  • watershed

    January 8, 2016

  • mere

    December 29, 2015

  • (pro)taigle - a professional tarrier

    December 17, 2015

  • spe - a view of the future

    December 16, 2015

  • What a wrinkle!

    December 16, 2015

  • Kept a lid on it (id)?

    December 14, 2015

  • eternal

    December 12, 2015

  • a goatstole(s)cape to another universe.

    December 12, 2015

  • as opposed to Leslessism?

    December 11, 2015

  • a solid liquid

    December 10, 2015

  • liquidid

    December 10, 2015

  • EL ...... Eyelash

    December 9, 2015

  • Cap...calm and peaceful

    December 9, 2015

  • Hashfit - just right or leftout?

    December 9, 2015

  • From which a fellowrose

    December 9, 2015

  • No hang ups ?

    December 9, 2015

  • soulevram ylmpls soulevram!

    December 4, 2015

  • partyllis!!!


    December 4, 2015

  • soda popportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • Æesopportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • over-the-topportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • o'ertopportunity   o'ertop

    December 2, 2015

  • behind the scenes (seens)

    December 2, 2015

  • megaflopportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • bebopportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • spenthouse

    December 2, 2015

  • rooftopportunity

    December 2, 2015

  • lief

    December 1, 2015

  • katabatic

    December 1, 2015

  • ...a plains wind????

    December 1, 2015

  • parabatic anabatic

    December 1, 2015

  • Reap what you sow?!

    December 1, 2015

  • cropportunity

    December 1, 2015

  • chopportunity

    December 1, 2015

  • Bractsome! What' a layover ( under wonder)!

    December 1, 2015

  • balderdash

    November 25, 2015

  • news bulletin

    November 25, 2015

  • No matter how you all!!

    November 25, 2015

  • quercitrin - bitter style??

    November 23, 2015

  • whiskey fashion?

    November 23, 2015

  • ....a latter day gym set (suit) - ad nauseam

    November 23, 2015

  • center or navel of the world ?

    the 'x' was pronounced as the 's' in English in 'vision'.

    alternatively: 'moon navel'. I wonder if there was a vision of the meteorite collision near the Yucatan that inspired the name. Many Native American mythologies relate emerging into the present time through a navel like path??

    November 21, 2015

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