;Posted on 12/24/2014 5:46:54 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 24, 2014-- manger
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
[meyn-jer]
noun
1. a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
2. Nautical.
1. a space at the bow of a ship, having a partition for confining water entering at the hawseholes until it can be drained.
2. a sunken bottom in a chain locker, covered by a grating and used to collect water from the anchor chain.
Origin: 1350-1400; Middle English < Middle French maingeure, derivative of mangier to eat < Latin mandūcāre to chew, eat.
manger in the Bible
(Luke 2:7, 12, 16), the name (Gr. phatne, rendered "stall" in Luke 13:15) given to the place where the infant Redeemer was laid. It seems to have been a stall or crib for feeding cattle. Stables and mangers in our modern sense were in ancient times unknown in the East. The word here properly denotes "the ledge or projection in the end of the room used as a stall on which the hay or other food of the animals of travellers was placed."
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Manger is to eat?
I didn’t copy, honest!
Excellent!!
The thought comes to me that the French manger(to eat) and the English "manger" (a place for animals to eat) must derive from the same root, even if the meanings are different.
I should have studied Latin.
A+++
Merry Christmas!
en Francais
A++
Totally missed it. Sorry.
You never heard an Italian grandma saying “mon jay”?
Thank you-Merry Christmas to you!
It is 52, now that the wind has died down, but there is a freeze predicted tonight again...
Merry Christmas! Been on the go all day, more of the same tomorrow.
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