>All this.....
>
>Didn't the English word "boredom" itself exist pre-industrially?
>Just a thought.
>
>NS
>
>>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_.
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