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prettygoodwordmaunder (MAWN-der) - v., to talk incoherently or aimlessly; to move or act in an aimless manner, wander.
I should have done this the day after mussitate. The second sense (1740s) seems to have been derived not from the first (1621), but independently from the root of the first, the Tudor colloquialism maund, to beg -- both being something beggars sometimes do. I should note that there's the alternate theory that it's from meander, but that doesn't make sense to me, given the wandering part came later. Maund itself came from French mendier, to beg, from Lating mendicare, the root of mendicant.
---L.
I should have done this the day after mussitate. The second sense (1740s) seems to have been derived not from the first (1621), but independently from the root of the first, the Tudor colloquialism maund, to beg -- both being something beggars sometimes do. I should note that there's the alternate theory that it's from meander, but that doesn't make sense to me, given the wandering part came later. Maund itself came from French mendier, to beg, from Lating mendicare, the root of mendicant.
---L.
