what language did the word illogical originally come from?
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"Illogical" is a form of the word "logic" -- which was derived from the Greek word "logos," which originally meant "the word" or "what was spoken."\n\nIt is not derived from a Latin word.
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The above answer was quite lengthy with added content.\n\nIt appears that "moon" is old english.\n\nThe "luna" part is Latin.  It was in Roman times, that the moon made people crazy, hence the word "lunatic".
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The origin of the ubiquitous psuedo-word "OK" or "okay" has proven to be one of the biggest war grounds in etymology. It is not specifically of English origin, being used all over the world in many different languages. The letters "OK" would be understood by an Englishman or Frenchman alike.\n\nSo what are some of the stories surrounding OK?\n\nThe Greeks had an incantation of "Omega, Khi" with which they drove away fleas. \nThe Finnish language has the word "oikea." \nLiberian English has the term "oke." \nBurmese has "hoakeh." \nThe infamous jokers at the Boston Morning Post claimed, in 1839, OK was short for "ORL KORREKT." \nThe Times, in 1939, claimed it had London Cockney origins, from "Orl Korrec." \nAmerican Indians used the word "okeh" which meant "it is so." The story goes that Andrew Jackson picked up the word during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. \nSome Latin scholars claim that "Omnis Korecta" is the origin. \nA site called The Straight Dope claims it is convinced of the true etymology. It claims the Bostonian "OLL KORRECT" is the true origin of "OK." Another site, however, claims the American Indian etymology is correct.\n\nThis is one of the finest examples of the entertainment of language. Despite technology, historical documents, and the availability of some of the most learned people in history, we still can't work out the etymology of a simple two syllable utterance! Long may it continue.
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stupid comes from a lot of folk....we all do stupid here and there..........the trick is to not make it a way of life.
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The origin of the term Blue Moon is steeped in folklore, and its meaning has changed and acquired new and interesting meanings and nuances over time. The earliest known recorded usage was in 1528, in a pamphlet entitled Rede Me and Be Not Wrothe: "Yf they say the mone is belewe, we must believe that it is true". This implies the expression had a meaning of something that was absurd, and bears close resemblance to another moon-related adage first recorded in the following year "They woulde make men beleue ... that ye Moone is made of grene chese".
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Just in case you didn't catch it when 6 people said the same thing before, the answer to your question is:\n\nthe origin
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Transcription error from the original text, saying should have been "Grules are made to be broken" for the Germanic tribe to the east that Saxons raided and favoured as slaves..you see this is why people say cliches are dangerous. Seriously without rules and law comedy would be hard to come by..
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Origin: a popular name for the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, which served as a lunatic asylum from ca. 1400; cf. ME Bedleem, Bethleem, OE Betleem Bethlehem\n\nnoun \n1. a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.  \n2. Archaic. an insane asylum or madhouse.
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Good question! I didnt know the answer so I looked on the internet and found this:\n\nThe best evidence obtainable at present points to Manute Bol, the 7'7" Sudanese NBA player whose native tongue was Dinka, as the inventor, sometime in the 1980s, of this now–ubiquitous phrase.\n\nGeoffrey K. Pullum told the story in his December 7, 2005 blog post:\n\nHere is the relevant portion: \nKen Arneson emailed me to say that he heard the phrase was first used by the Sudanese immigrant basketball player Manute Bol, believed to have been a native speaker of Dinka (a very interesting and thoroughly un-Indo-Europeanlike language of the Nilo-Saharan superfamily). \n\nSays Arneson, "I first heard the phrase here in the Bay Area when Bol joined the Golden State Warriors in 1988, when several Warriors players started using the phrase." \n\nAnd Ben Zimmer's rummaging in the newspaper files down in the basement of Language Log Plaza produced a couple of early 1989 quotes that confirm this convincingly:\n\nSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 10, 1989: When he [Manute Bol] throws a bad pass, he'll say, "My bad" instead of "My fault," and now all the other players say the same thing.\n\nUSA Today, Jan. 27, 1989: After making a bad pass, instead of saying "my fault," Manute Bol says, "my bad." Now all the other Warriors say it too.\n\nSo all of this is compatible with a date of origin for the phrase in the early 1980s (Manute Bol first joined the NBA in 1985 but came to the USA before that, around 1980). \n\nProfessor Ron McClamrock of the Philosophy Department at SUNY Albany tells me he recalls very definitely hearing the phrase on the basketball court when he was in graduate school at MIT in the early 1980s, so the news stories above could be picking the story up rather late; but it is still just possible that Manute Bol was the originator, because he played for Cleveland State and Bridgeport University in the early 1980s, and his neologism just could have spread from there to other schools in the northeast, such as MIT.
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Probably no one knows for sure.  One theory I like is that "okay" derives from the Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes". \n\nHere are a number of links that discuss possible origins.
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http://www.snopes.com/language/puzzlers/gry.asp\n\nThere is no answer to the way you phrased the question.\n\nOrigins:   This  puzzler may indeed "KILL YOUR BRAIN!" and "make you so MAD!" -- it certainly has left plenty of victims racking their brains and scratching their heads in decades past. If you don't already know the answer to this one, let us help you preserve your sanity and whatever gray matter you may have left by telling you . . . there is no answer. Other than 'hungry' and 'angry,' there is no English word ending with the letters 'gry' which the average native speaker of English would recognize, much less "use every day" (and certainly none which a teller of this riddle could claim to have "already given you"). \n\nAll other words ending in 'gry' which one might find in even the most comprehensive English dictionary are either archaic terms or obsolete variant spellings, such as: \n\n\naggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa. \n\nbegry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty). \n\nconyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren'). \n\ngry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." \n\nhigry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark. \n\niggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!" \n\nmeagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.' \n\nmenagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.' \n\nnangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.' \n\npodagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.' \n\npuggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India. \n\nskugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.' \nSo, what's the point to this puzzler if it has no answer? Some people maintain that is the point: the question was deliberately conceived as an irritating brain-teaser with no correct answer. The roundabout phrasing of the question suggests otherwise, however -- more likely it was designed as a trick question rather than a trivia question, perhaps one whose wording has been corrupted over time or whose gimmick was only apparent when the question was delivered orally. \n\nThe most common guess is that this riddle is indeed a trick question, but the point of the trick has been lost through the rearrangement of the riddle's wording as it has been passed along through the years. Consider an alternate version of this puzzler: \n\nThink of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. \nThis version supports the theory that the first two sentences are red herrings; the catch is that the teller is literally asking you to identify the third word of the phrase "the English language" -- there are only three words in the phrase "the English language," the third word ("language") describes something that one uses ever
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It is the origin of the word and the meaning behind it\n\n"abbreviation  \n1460, from M.Fr. abréviation, from L.L. abbreviationem (nom. abbreviatio), from pp. of abbreviare "make brief," from L. ad "to" + breviare "shorten," from brevis "short, low, little, shallow" (see brief (adj.)). "
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I don't know the true origin of it. Always wondered what it meant, but I think it means, this isn't right.
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Sorry you've had such rubbish answers. \n\nI'm usually quite good at this sort of thing, but I'm afraid I can't find any info on the origins of this phrase.\n\nI hope someone more knowledgeable answers you soon!
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In Japanese, the word baka means "idiot," "moron," "fool," or "dimwit"; it can also refer to the condition of being stupid.Baka is written with the Chinese characters 馬鹿, which literally mean "horse-deer" Another theory states that the word baka was first used by Buddhist monks, and the word originated from a Sanskrit word moha.
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Referring to a very intelligent person, the plural of "genius" is "geniuses." The form "genii", the plural of the word in Latin, is the plural of a different kind of genius: the guardian spirit of Roman mythology.\nOnly Latin words change the plural not all words finishing in "us", for example you don't say "bus" and "bi".\n\nScampi and Graffiti came from the Italian, like spaghetti, which also has the singular spaghetto.
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Who invented it. No one. Although it has been derived from Anglo-Saxons and the Germanic tribes English is just made up of European languages mushed up together.