Etymology Quotes

“The word 'paradise' comes from a Persian word meaning 'walled garden'.”

“Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.”

“The word 'health' in English is based on an Anglo-Saxon word 'hale' meaning 'whole': that is, to be healthy is to be whole.”

“The word 'health' is derived from an Anglo-Saxon root that means 'wholeness'.”

“The name Richter is German and it means 'judge.' I am a judge of earthquakes.”

“To be 'radical' is to grasp things by the root.”

“Every word has a history.”

“I coined the word homophobia to mean it was a phobia about homosexuals. It was a fear of homosexuals which seemed to be associated with a fear of contagion, a fear of reducing the things one fought for — home and family. It was a religious fear.”