![]() ![]() ![]() She, for instance, has been the object of long and fruitful research, and some latest stages in its history have been clarified ( she seems to go back to a demonstrative pronoun), but the word’s sought-for ultimate origin remains unknown. As a rule, the origin of those verbal midgets is beyond reconstruction. In a recent email, a correspondent asked me to return to that group, saying (quite correctly, as I think) that one can find hardly any information about its etymology on the Internet and in dictionaries. Five years ago, I discussed the origin of several very short words, the most troublesome of which were if and of ( 2 August and 9 August 2017). ![]()
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