Another 'erer'. Flatterer! The person who makes things flat… Ok, not really, but it's funnier that way.

I love a good etymology. I may need to update the morpheme mapper entry to include 'to boil'. I couldn't find anything besides the base when I entered it originally. phonicsandstuff.com/morpheme-map...

Metamorphosis. The act of going beyond one's shape.

It also seems that indigenous Tupi speakers used the cashew tree to measure the passing of time. The word "akaîuro'y" 'cold cashew' seems to have meant 'year' in Tupi, for instance. Here it is in the Tupi-Latin glossary at the end of Georg Marcgrave's "Historia Naturalis Brasiliae" (1648:276):

Word of the day Etymon /ˈɛtəˌmɑn/ - 1: (n.) A word or morpheme from which a later word is derived. Shared via #Orphic

There’s a nice piece on Zellig Harris’s From Morpheme to Utterance in the most recent issue of Language that discusses some ways in which Harris’s version of structuralism originates some core ideas attributed to later generative linguistics: muse.jhu.edu/article/937189

Can't pass up a chance to share some fun etymologies. I use stuff like this all the time for our morpheme mapper.

Multiplicand. Just a fun word to say. If you do it with a rising tone it sounds like a question. Multiplic…and?

Like the word succeed, the word accept has two c's, but they are for the sounds /k/ and /s/.

A language without an army is a language without a word or expression for "free morpheme unit"... @myleslobdell.bsky.social‬