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grapple (GRAP-uhl) - v., to seize firmly with the hands; to wrestle; to struggle or work hard to deal with something.
Also, as a noun, a hook-like device (such as a grappling hook) for holding onto something, but that turns out to be a different word with a separate origin (PIE root *grep-, hook instead of *gʰrebʰ-, seize). This one is a frequentive, formed in Old English as græpplian, of gegrǣppian, to seize and ancestor of grab. So essentially the frequentive of grab, the extended type of frequent rather than the many-times type.
And that wraps up this week of more frequentives. Back next week with the usual mix, but yes, I have more of these planned in the future. Frequentives are fascinating.
---L.
Also, as a noun, a hook-like device (such as a grappling hook) for holding onto something, but that turns out to be a different word with a separate origin (PIE root *grep-, hook instead of *gʰrebʰ-, seize). This one is a frequentive, formed in Old English as græpplian, of gegrǣppian, to seize and ancestor of grab. So essentially the frequentive of grab, the extended type of frequent rather than the many-times type.
And that wraps up this week of more frequentives. Back next week with the usual mix, but yes, I have more of these planned in the future. Frequentives are fascinating.
---L.
