Re: [nukkad] Wester

["max tough" <>]

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 to turn or move westward <http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/westward> <the half
moon *wester**s* low



max


On 9/10/06, dkaikobad  wrote:
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> Did you know there is a word, 'Wester', which is entirely respectable
> and with legitimate antecedents?
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> Was working at a script and mistyped it and expected it to be an error,
> and it was not. A quick search says it means a strong westerly wind, or
> a celestial movement to the west.
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> By contrast, the word to complement wester should be easter, unless it
> be the one with eggs and a random rabbit.
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> Can there be a norther? Or a souther?
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> One is accepting of breather, slither, mother, brother, other. But
> norther? Odd.
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> Next we may have a northerly brother who chanced to slither hither from
> tither, to meet a brother, other than the legitimate one, who had in
> turn slithered hither from tither, this tither being distinct from the
> formerly one, in that it came second to the first..
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> There is a vernacular compliment to hither which is, idhar, [here],
> which is not udhar [there]. Or did the Normans, who decimated the
> Saxons, with a singular arrow, lift the idhar also?
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> One may be minded to create a complex sentence with disparate words, but
> this seems somewhat otherly than what is motherly.
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> Not to say verse, which would be the worse for the wear.
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> Which is neither idhar nor udhar, nor here or there.
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> Arya.
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