Note the following information regarding 3 notable persons recently added to Wikipedia’s Notable Deaths in 2024:
- Doireann MacDermott Goodridge (13 December 1923 – 13 November 2024)100, writer, academic
- Theodore Olson (September 11, 1940 – November 13, 2024) 84, U.S. solicitor general
- Kianush Sanjari (11 September 1982 – 13 November 2024) 42, journalist, activist
- Robin William Renwick, Baron Renwick of Clifton(13 December 1937 – 4 November 2024)
- Louis Cane (13 December 1943 – 4 November 2024) i
- Manju Sharma (13 December 1940 – 31 October 2024)
- Leonard Weisgard (December 13, 1916 – January 14, 2000)
- Kazuyuki Izutsu (born 13 December 1952)
- Brian Maxine (13 August 1938 – 13 November 2024) 86, wrestler, cabaret artist.
- Luis Soares (24 March 1964 – 13 November 2024) 60, Olympic long-distance runner
And now note from yesterdays post, They Said:
- Charles Carroll (22 March 1723 – 23 March 1783)
Middle English sore, from Old English sar "bodily pain or injury, wound; sickness, disease; state of pain or suffering," from root of sore (adj.). Now restricted to ulcers, boils, blisters, places where the skin is painfully raw (a sense in late Old English). In Old and Middle English also of mental pain. Compare Old Saxon ser "pain, wound," Middle Dutch seer, Dutch zeer, Old High German ser, Old Norse sar, Gothic sair.
sur- (1)
word-forming element meaning "over, above, beyond, in addition," especially in words from Anglo-French and Old French, from Old French sour-, sor-, sur-, a form of super-, from Latin super "above, over" (from PIE root *uper "over").
*uper
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "over."
It forms all or part of: hyper-; insuperable; over; over-; sirloin; somersault; soprano; soubrette; sovereign; sum; summit; super-; superable; superb; superior; supernal; supra-; supreme; sur-.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit upari, Avestan upairi"over, above, beyond;" Greek hyper, Latin super "above, over;" Old English ofer "over," German über, Gothic ufaro "over, across;" Gaulish ver-, Old Irish for.
surge (n.)
late 15c. (Caxton), "fountain, spring of water" (a sense now obsolete), a word of uncertain origin, probably from French sourge-, stem of sourdre "to rise, swell," from Latin surgere "to rise, arise, get up, mount up, ascend; attack," contraction of surrigere, from assimilated form of sub "up from below" (see sub-) + regere "to keep straight, guide" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line," thus "to lead, rule").
sorrel (adj.)
"reddish- or yellowish-brown, chestnut-colored," especially of horses, mid-14c., sorel, (mid-12c. as a surname), from Old French sorel, from sor "yellowish-brown," probably from Frankish *saur "dry," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sauza- (source also of Middle Dutch soor "dry," Old High German soren "to become dry," Old English sear "withered, barren;" see sere)
*ser- (1)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to protect." It forms all or part of: conservation; conservative; conserve; observance; observatory; observe; preserve; reservation; reserve; reservoir.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Avestan haurvaiti "to guard;" Latin servare "to guard, keep, watch;" Old Church Slavonic xraniti "to guard, protect;" Old High German gi-sarwi "armor, equipment," Old English searu "art, skill; wile, deceit."
*ser- (2)
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to line up."
It forms all or part of: assert; assertion; assort; consort; desert (v.) "to leave one's duty;" desertion; dissertation; ensorcell; exert; exsert; insert; seriatim; seriation; series; sermon; serried; sorcerer; sorcery; sort.
source (n.)
mid-14c., "support, base," from Old French sourse "a rising, beginning, fountainhead of a river or stream" (12c.), fem. noun taken from past participle of sourdre "to rise, spring up," from Latin surgere"to rise, arise, get up, mount up, ascend; attack," a contraction of surrigere, from assimilated form of sub "up from below" (see sub-) + regere "to keep straight, guide" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line," with derivatives meaning "to direct in a straight line," thus "to lead, rule").
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