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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/7/2022 9:54 AM, Will Martin wrote:<br>
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<div class="">juplI’ yIchoSQo’! = Don’t desert your friends!</div>
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<div class="">bIQ Hutlh Deb. = The desert lacks water.</div>
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<div class="">‘uQ DaSop. ghIq chab DaSopDI’ wanI’vamvaD chabvam
Dellu'meH pong ghaj DIvI’ Hol: “dessert”.</div>
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<div class="">DIvI’ Hol jatlhlu'DI'’ teSvaD nIb
<<choS>> “dessert” je.</div>
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<div class="">DIvI’ Hol ghItlhlu’DI’ mInvaD nIb
<<choS>> <<Deb>> je.</div>
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<div class="">tu’HomI’raH ‘oH DIvI’ Hol’e’.</div>
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<div class="">Three homonyms. Two are homographs. Two are
homophones. They aren’t the same two.</div>
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<p><i>Desert,</i> an arid region, and <i>desert,</i> abandon, come
from the same word. Most dialects of English have a feature called
initial-stress-derived nouns, where a verb which is stressed in
the last syllable turns into a noun by moving the stress to the
first syllable. There are nearly two hundred of these noun-verb
pairs in English, and more are gradually being created. They are
often derived from Latin, where the word begins with a Latin
preposition.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun</a><br>
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<p><i>Desert</i> is one of these. The <i>de-</i> originally derives
from a Latin element meaning "undo,"<i> </i>and the rest comes
from <i>serere, </i>"join together." A desert is literally — if
not realistically — a place that is barren, abandoned.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=desert">https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=desert</a><br>
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<p><i>Dessert,</i> comes from French, where the Latin <i>de-</i>
prefix had become <i>des-,</i> still meaning "undo." The rest
comes from <i>servir</i> "to serve," and the Old French <i>desservir</i>
meant "undo-serve," or "clear the table." The French noun <i>dessert</i>
came to mean "last course (of a meal)," and English took the word
and gave it a more specific connotation.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dessert">https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dessert</a><br>
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<p>So... <b>QIpbe' DIvI' Hol. qunDaj Daghojchugh, mISHa'choH
mu'meyDaj chutmeyDaj je.</b><br>
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