#LiveLong

Alliterative/Endless KnotAllEndlessKnot@toot.community
2025-10-06
No one loves a furlough of government workers, but hopefully it won’t last a livelong time. Furlough, the temporary layoff of workers, originally meant a “leave of absence”, with the first element related to the English intensifying or negating prefix for- meaning “away, opposite, completely” and the second element related to the English noun leave meaning “permission” (from Old English leaf “permission” and not at all related to the verb leave meaning “to go away, cause to remain”). It was borrowed into English in the 1620s from Dutch verlof meaning literally “permission” from Middle Dutch ver- “completely, for” + lof “permission”, which comes from Proto-Germanic *laubo, ultimately traceable back to *loubh- the o-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *leubh- “to care, desire, love” from the notion of “pleasure, approval”. The zero-grade form of this root *lubh- in the suffixed form *lubh-a- came into Germanic as *lubo which became Old English lufu “love” and Modern English love.As for the somewhat old fashioned word livelong meaning “very long” most often seen in the phrase livelong day, the first element is completely unrelated to the word live, but in fact comes from the PIE root *leubh-, specifically the suffixed form *leubh-o-, which came into Germanic as *leubaz, becoming Old English leof “dear, beloved”, which not only gave us the now archaic word lief “dearly, gladly, willingly”, but was also used as an emotional intensifier with the word long in Middle English to give us livelong literally “dear long”.
TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com
2025-09-15

#PattonOswalt is the #Vulcan I never knew I needed 🖖😅

#StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek #LiveLong

2024-07-29

#ElizabethFrancis #USA
How to #livelong and #livewell as per a 115-year-old
#OldestHuman in America
1. Cherish family and community connections
2. Stay active and engaged
3. Live simply and with gratitude
4. Speak your mind and stay positive
5. Focus on faith and fortitude
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Make My Life Bettermakemylifebetter
2024-02-28

This video provides valuable tips and advice on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It covers various aspects of health, including physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

youtu.be/4CzD6lhN940?si=pO5kgY

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