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prettygoodwordTheme week! -- clubs. Or rather, words for clubs, starting with:
cudgel (KUHJ-uhl) - n., a short heavy club with a rounded head; (fig.) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. v., to beat with or as if with a cudgel.
This one goes back to Old English cyċġel, from a Proto-Germanic root with a sense of knobbed instrument, from PIE root *gewgʰ-, swelling. So the rounded end sense is deep, as would any sort of knob on the end of that club.
---L.
cudgel (KUHJ-uhl) - n., a short heavy club with a rounded head; (fig.) Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another. v., to beat with or as if with a cudgel.
This one goes back to Old English cyċġel, from a Proto-Germanic root with a sense of knobbed instrument, from PIE root *gewgʰ-, swelling. So the rounded end sense is deep, as would any sort of knob on the end of that club.
---L.
