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- W2600692404 abstract "1. JINX The Oxford English Dictionary ascribes to jinx, in the sense of 'a person or thing that brings bad luck or exercises evil influence', a North American origin and explains the derivation of the word as 'apparently A prime characteristic of the wryneck, Jynx torquilla, is an ability to turn its head almost 180 degrees. The classical Greek name for the bird, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], however, is based on its cry and a Greek verb meaning 'to shriek'. It was calqued into Latin as iynx. The wryneck was associated in early Greece with charms and potions intended to recover the lost affections of a lover. (1) This learned lore seems not to have been generally known to seventeenth-and eighteenth-century English naturalists and writers, for whom jynx was simply the scientific name for a woodpecker: 'Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter [ant-hunter], or as some say, the Wag-tail' (Phillips and Kersey 1706). Nonetheless, the OED posits the transference of jinx (in the modem spelling) to designate a charm or spell. Evidence, however, is of the most limited kind--a single instance in Scotsman Thomas Urquhart's translation of Francois Rabelais's Troisieme Livre des faits et dits Heroiques du noble Pantagniel. The passage in question reads: 'These are the philtres, allurements, jynges, inveiglements, baits, and enticements of love, by the means whereof that may be peaceably revived which was painfully acquired' ('Ce sont les philtres, iynges et attraictz d'amour, moienans lesquelz pacificquement on retient ce que peniblement on avoit conqueste').' (2) Here Rabelais is actually writing on political science, and of military conquest, pacification, and subsequent rule, likening the process to winning a woman with great effort but then needing to retain her by means of love potions. The term iynges, drawn from either Greek or Latin, was not otherwise current in Renaissance France and, with a single exception, is not represented in the French literature of subsequent centuries. Thus, Urquhart's expedient of providing a simple caique, along with his other exuberant word-coining, is understandable but it is imprudent to draw the conclusion that jynge ever--before or after--had widespread currency as an English term for a love philter or charm. The single exception to the post-Rabelaisian absence of jynges or a congener in French letters is worth pausing over for a moment. Jean Moreas was an exponent of Symbolism and a contemporary of Paul Verlaine, who is judged to have had a significant influence on his work. He was bom Ioannis A. Papadiamantopoulos, and his early written work was in Greek, before he became a recognised poet, essayist and art critic in France. In his collection of poems Les Cantilenes (1886) he writes of love, its sorrows, fatigues, and disappointed hopes. L'anacampserote au sue vermeil Est eclose: au coeur las panacee; Au flux de son aile cadencee L'lynge berce Tamer sommeil. Mais le jaloux, dont la voix incite, S'essore des marges du missel Et dit: qu'il nous faut rompre le seel De l'incantation illicite. Alors e'est la chute et le confin Du tier palais qu'abritait la nue; Et voici qu'Entelekhia nue Rampe en le jour vertical et vain. …" @default.
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- W2600692404 title "Two Scottish Etymologies for English Words" @default.
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