By Anatoly Liberman
Considering that I’ll be out of town at the end of July, I was not guaranteed I would be ready to generate these “gleanings.” But the inquiries have been several, and I could reply some of them ahead of time.
Autumn: its etymology
Our correspondent miracles no matter whether the Latin phrase from which English, by means of French, has autumn, could be determined with the identify of the Egyptian god Autun. The Romans derived the word autumnus, which was the two an adjective (“autumnal”) and a noun (“autumn”), from augere “to raise.” This verb’s
