Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 15:16 |
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At 19:56 2002-06-18 -0500, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> > > Or does Hawai'i not count as a pre-industrial society?
> >
> > Unless the term arose post-colonially, certainly it'd count as
> > pre-industrial.
>
>Okay, so I did a search of the online Perseus dictionary of
>Ancient Greek, and it came up with <alus> for boredom, which
>seems also to have the flavor of "agitation". This should
>be fairly conclusive that you can be preindustrial, and yet
>have a word for "boredom".
There is also Swedish _leda_, which shows all signs of being an Old Word --
being derived by no-longer productive processes.
Then of course you have Latin _taedium_.
/BP 8^)>
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