Monday Musings: Aerre Geola (Early Yule)

Since it's Christmas, I thought I'd share this bit of history on the holiday. Early Yule, Aerre Geola, is the month before the Winter Solstice. The Anglo-Saxons considered the lunar months preceding and following the solstice as Yule. The shorter days made it difficult to do any kind of work, so they used this time to gather and celebrate with family and friends.

The solstice was called Mother's Night and celebrated one's female ancestors. Burning rosemary and calling out female ancestors by name is one way to honor them.

The oldest Yuletide tradition is the burning of the Yule log, usually the largest piece of wood. Many people today don't have a fireplace, so a Yule candle can be substituted. The candle tradition started way back in England in the early nineteenth century. Light the candle at sunset on the night of the solstice. It's customary to keep a small piece of the candle for luck in the coming year.

Merry Christmas, Happy Yule!

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Weird Word Wednesday

enosis

Pronunciation /ɪˈnəʊsɪs//ˈɛnəsɪs/

NOUN

mass noun

The political union of Cyprus and Greece, as an aim or ideal of certain Greeks and Cypriots.

Example sentences

‘The Turks invaded, in 1974, just as the island was edging towards reunion or enosis with Greece.’

Origin

1920s: from modern Greek henōsis, from hena ‘one’.

Pronunciation

enosis/ɪˈnəʊsɪs//ˈɛnəsɪs/

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ennead

NOUN

rare

A group or set of nine.

Example sentences

‘I think that it goes back even further, to the Ennead, the pantheon of nine gods and goddesses in ancient Egypt.’

‘Ennead refers to a grouping of typically 9 gods.’

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Greek enneas, ennead-, from ennea ‘nine’.

Pronunciation

ennead/ˈɛnɪad/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enlace

VERB

literary

Entwine or entangle.

‘a web of green enlaced the thorn trees’

More example sentences

Origin

Middle English: from Old French enlacier, based on Latin laqueus ‘noose’.

Pronunciation

enlace/ɪnˈleɪs//ɛnˈleɪs/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enkindle

VERB

literary

1Set on fire.

‘the glare from its enkindled roof illumined its innermost recesses’

2Arouse or inspire (an emotion)

‘fresh remembrance of vexation must still enkindle rage’

Pronunciation

enkindle/ɛnˈkɪnd(ə)l//ɪnˈkɪnd(ə)l/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enkephalin

(also encephalin)

NOUN

Biochemistry

Either of two peptide compounds occurring naturally in the brain, related to the endorphins and having similar physiological effects.

Example sentences

Origin

1970s: from Greek enkephalos ‘brain’ (from en- ‘in’ + kephalē ‘head’) + -in.

Pronunciation

enkephalin/ɛnˈkɛf(ə)lɪn/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enjambed

ADJECTIVE

(of a line, couplet, or stanza of verse) ending part-way through a sentence or clause which continues in the next.

Example sentences

‘In the last four lines, all of them enjambed, Ryan begins to break against the units of grammatical and syntactical sense that give the first nine lines their air of balanced authority and control.’

‘Another aural effect created by it in highly enjambed poems is a counterpoint of the pauses expected at the end of lines with the pauses that occur mid-line as they frame a completed thought or grammatical unit.’

Origin

Late 19th century: from French enjamber ‘stride over’ + -ed.

Pronunciation

enjambed/ɛnˈdʒam//ɪnˈdʒam/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enisle

VERB

literary

Isolate on or as if on an island.

‘in the sea of life enisled, we mortal millions live alone’

Pronunciation

enisle/ɪnˈʌɪl//ɛnˈʌɪl/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enharmonic

ADJECTIVE

Music

1Relating to or denoting notes which are the same in pitch (in modern tuning) though bearing different names (e.g. F sharp and G flat or B and C flat)

‘double flats and double sharps are replaced by their enharmonic equivalents in harp music’

More example sentences

1.1 Of or having intervals smaller than a semitone (e.g. between notes such as F sharp and G flat, in systems of tuning which distinguish them).

Example sentences

Origin

Early 17th century (designating ancient Greek music based on a tetrachord divided into two quarter-tones and a major third): via late Latin from Greek enarmonikos, from en- ‘in’ + harmonia ‘harmony’.

Pronunciation

enharmonic/ˌɛnhɑːˈmɒnɪk/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enfilade

NOUN

1A volley of gunfire directed along a line from end to end.

‘they were mown down by an enfilade of artillery’

2A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other.

Example sentences

VERB

Direct a volley of gunfire along the length of (a target)

‘a sweeping crossfire enfiladed our riflemen’

Origin

Early 18th century (denoting the position of a military post commanding the length of a line): from French, from enfiler ‘thread on a string, pierce from end to end’, from en- ‘in, on’ + fil ‘thread’.

Pronunciation

enfilade/ˌɛnfɪˈleɪd/

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Weird Word Wednesday

enfeoff

VERB

(under the feudal system) give (someone) freehold property or land in exchange for their pledged service.

‘he enfeoffed trustees with the lands’

‘the enfeoffed knights and overlords’

More example sentences

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French enfeoffer, from Old French en- ‘in’ + fief ‘fief’. Compare with feoffment.

Pronunciation

enfeoff/ɪnˈfiːf//ɪnˈfɛf//ɛnˈfiːf//ɛnˈfɛf/

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