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• Etymology_3
• • Lookout
  • • scout
    • watch (wow…)
    • stand
  • perusal [per -Us-al]
  • • peruse [puh-Rooz]
    • -al (2)
  • vault [vawlt] (n.)

Lookout

look + out

• person who stands watch or acts as a scout
• be on the watch

scout

• n. person who scouts, one sent out to gain information (v. scout)
• v.1 : to listen, heed –> auscultare ” to listen to, give heed to”
  - heed :
• • new : ausculatate [ aus col Tate ]
    - to listen
    - aus- : auris “ear”
    - rest is doubtful ; clinere “to lean , bend” (?
  • • other root : scout (v.2)
    • • ”to reject with scorn” <– to mock <– to taunt <– ” shout (v) “
    • new : scorn
    • new : taunt
    • new : heed

watch (wow…)

wæcce (old english)

• ” a watching, state of being or remaining awake, wakefulness”
• ” act or practice or refraining from sleep for devotional or penitential purposes. “
• watch (v. )
• • PIE *weg-(2) ” to be strong, lively” [LAI-v- ly]
  • • wacian [WAY si an]
      - “be or remain awake”
      - wake (v.)
  • “be vigilant”
  • “to guard (someone or some place), stand guard”
  • “to observe, keep under observance”
  • new :
  • • devotional, (interesting)
    • refrain (interesting)
    • penitential (interesting)
    • vigilant

stand

• ” a pause, delay, state of rest or inaction”
• stand (v.)
• • standan [Stand-an] : “occupy a place ; congeal,; stay “
  • rom PIE root *sta- “to stand” (see stet ).
  • new: stet (oh!??!!!)

perusal [per -Us-al]

peruse + -al(2)

peruse [puh-Rooz]

• read casually <— to read with care <—* use up, wear out(?), go through
• • ” but this could be a separate formation”
• per (completely) + use (v.)
• • new: use(v.)

-al (2)

suffix forming nouns of action from verbs.

( there are 3 -al. )

vault [vawlt] (n.)

from shelock episode 3-3

• a strongly protected room in a bank where money, gold etc is kept
• • <– an underground room where people’s bodies are buried, especially under a church
• “arched roof ” <– volver (to turn, turn around,roll )
• • see *volvox”
  • The -l- appeared in English c. 1400, an etymological insertion in imitation of earlier forms (compare fault (n.)). (?)

new : vaulting

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