gemini_J13

📍 Kansas, United States

Member since January 2012

Easy reference tool: If someone mentions a word or phrase you are unfamiliar with, do Google search. It's amazing how much you will learn.

Words Rarely Seen Except In Babble
Also Know As "Babblets" (who knows why)

aalii(s) = Australia bush
aioli – garlic mustard
anoa – buffalo
aoudad – African wild sheep
aroint/aroynt – means “be gone!”

ceorl(s) – Saxon freeman
copihue - a flowering plant native to Chile
cuif – Scot for cough
crwth – Welsh harp
cwms - Welsh for circles
cyma - architectural molding

dhoti(s) Long loincloth worn by Hindu men and also the fabric it is made of

elhi – combination of elementary and high school
eng - the symbol, Å‹ that represents the sound ng
enoki – Japanese mushroom
etui – needlecase, alternate spelling etwee
emeu(s) – variation of emu, running bird
epha/ephah - Hebrew unit of dry measure
eremuri - perennial herb of the lily family
etna – volcano
eyrir – Icelandic coin

foehn(s) variant spelling of the alps wind word
fohn(n) warm wind in the alps

haar(s) – Scot for fog
hacek – diacritical mark
haha (sunk fence, or exclamation of laughter)
hapax – word that appears only once
hisn - his
huic - an encouraging call given by a huntsman during a hunt to cheer on hounds
hunh – whaddya mean?

indri(s) - a short-tailed lemur of Madagascar
inia – hairy nosed dolphin
inti (s) - former monetary unit of Peru
issei(s), nisei(s), sansei(s), yonsei(s) – Japanese generational words
iwis - certainly

keitloa – African rhino
kouros/kouroi – Greek sculpture

lauan – Philippine hardwood
lwei – Angolan coin

maar – shallow crater
miaow, miao, miau, miyau, miaou – variations of cat sound meow

naan – Indian bread
nabe – neighborhood movie theater
naos/naoi – ancient temple
neif(s) – female serf
nene – Hawaiian goose/NO PLURAL
ngwee – African coin
nyala – African antelope

ogee - a double curve, resembling an S
omasa - extra, ruminant stomach. Cows have them.
ootid - the cell that results from the meiotic divisions of an oocyte
otiose - idle
ourie/oorie – Scot for shabby

piste – skiing terminology
pschent(s) – Egyptian crown
ptisan – barley concoction

saimin – Hawaiian noodle soup
sinh – a form of the math term sine
taos – Mexican language
tamoroa = Philippine cattle
teiid - lizard
tenrec or tanrec – Madagascan hedgehog/referred to as Jilly’s favorite word
tepa - South American tree
tisane – concoction of barley
tmesis/tmeses - a linguistic phenomenon in which a word or phrase is separated into two parts, with other words interrupting between them
toea - a monetary unit of Papua New Guinea

unai - two-toed sloth
uraei – snake of the headdress of ancient Egypt
urari – poison/curare
usnea - lichen plant

ylem – original matter of the universe
yttria – chemical powder

zloty – Polish coin