Nov. 3rd, 2014

benmost

Nov. 3rd, 2014 07:52 am
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It's been a while since I've run a theme week -- time for another: words in Scots.


benmost (BEN-mohst) - adj., (Scot.) innermost.


Though of course the dictionaries all seem to put it as the superlative form of ben, which is an adjective (inner, interior), noun (inner room of a cottage), and adverb (within, inside), which had the Middle English form binne, from Old English be, which is the same as in Modern English + innan, in.

---L.

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