etymology of esuee

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, FFlores wrote:

> Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
> > Some interesting bits:
> >
> > esuee, wonder, comes from the emphatic verb "to sing."
>
> How? Is it because a wonder is something that compels you to
> sing about it? (Just guessing, thinking of _mirabilis_, in
> Spanish *_mirable_ 'lookable').
Yup.  Not just sing, of course, but exult (what "esuea" means).