-i (1)

as a termination in certain people names (Iraqi, Israeli), it represents the common Semitic national designation suffix -i.

-i (2)

plural suffix sometimes preserved in English for words from Latin, it is the Latin plural of nouns of the second declension (such as focus/foci, radius/radii).

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rinky-dink

The earliest senses seem to be as a noun, "maltreatment," especially robbery: So I felt and saw that I was robbed and I...I found an officer on the corner of Twenty-fifth street and Sixth avenue. I said, "Officer, I have got the rinky-dink."...I said, "I guess that is right."...

get

"I GOT on Horseback within ten Minutes after I received your Letter. When I GOT to Canterbury I GOT a Chaise for Town....But I GOT wet through before I GOT to Canterbury, and I HAVE GOT such a Cold as I shall not be able to GET rid of in a Hurry...As soon as I GOT back to my Inn, I GOT my Supper, and GOT to Bed, it was not long before I GOT to Sleep....As soon as I GOT it, I GOT into the Chaise, and GOT to Canterbury by three: and about Tea Time, I GOT Home....

signify

While writing this essay, I asked a colleague, Dwight Andrews, if he had heard of the Signifying Monkey as a child...."I never head of the Signifying Monkey until I came to Yale and read about him in a book." I had been signified upon....If I had responded to Andrews, "I know what you mean; your Mama read to me from that same book the last time I was in Detroit...," I would have signified upon him in return....

treble

I recollect once talking with one of the first men in America, who was narrating to me the advantages which might have accrued...to him if he had followed up a certain speculation, when he said, "Sir, if I had done so, I should not only have doubled...and trebled, but I should have fourbled and fivebled my money."...

panicky

I remonstrated against it in private conversations and in written despatches, until I am very certain that the parties to...whom my remonstrances were made, and those around them, began to think I was getting panicky, as they say, and I had to...

phenomenalism

I AM about to try to explain a manner of thought which, in various applications, or perhaps misapplications, of it, I have...I shall now however not use this term, but the term 'phenomenalism.'...I understand the two terms to express in substance the same thing .......' may perhaps carry with it less danger of extraneous associations being joined with it, and may express what I mean more...

tawdry

supposedly died of a throat tumor, which, according to Bede, she considered God's punishment for her youthful stylishness: "I...know of a surety that I deservedly bear the weight of my trouble on my neck, for I remember that, when I was a young maiden..., I bore on it the needless weight of necklaces; and therefore I believe the Divine goodness would have me endure the pain...in my neck, that so I may be absolved from the guilt of my needless levity, having now, instead of gold and pearls, the...

blood

Old English blod "blood, fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins," from Proto-Germanic *blodam "blood" (source also of Old Frisian blod, Old Saxon blôd, Old Norse bloð, Middle Dutch bloet, Dutch bloed, Old High German bluot, German Blut, Gothic bloþ), according to some s

terrific

1660s, "frightening," from Latin terrificus "causing terror or fear, frightful," from terrere "fill with fear" (see terrible) + combining form of facere "to make" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put"). Weakened sensed of "very great, severe" (as in terrific headache) appeared 1809;

fickle

c. 1200, "false, treacherous, deceptive, deceitful, crafty" (obsolete), probably from Old English ficol "deceitful, cunning, tricky," related to befician "deceive," and to facen "deceit, treachery; blemish, fault." Common Germanic (compare Old Saxon fekan "deceit," Old High Germa

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