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prettygoodwordWe frequently run weeks of frequentives around here. This is one.
ramble (RAM-bl) - v., to wander about in an aimless or irregular manner.
Both physically and in written or spoken text. This one is not certain, as we lack direct evidence for the Middle English form *ramlen or *ramelen, but it is probably a frequentive of ramen/romen, to roam, with a vowel change and shift of /mm/ to /mb/, possibly by an intermediate dialect form.
---L.
ramble (RAM-bl) - v., to wander about in an aimless or irregular manner.
Both physically and in written or spoken text. This one is not certain, as we lack direct evidence for the Middle English form *ramlen or *ramelen, but it is probably a frequentive of ramen/romen, to roam, with a vowel change and shift of /mm/ to /mb/, possibly by an intermediate dialect form.
---L.
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