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thewy

adj

Etymology

From thew + -y.

  1. inherited from *(s)tāu-✻
  2. inherited from *þawwaz✻ — “custom; habit”
  3. inherited from *þauw✻
  4. inherited from þēaw — “general practice of a community, custom, usage; mode of conduct, behaviour, manner; (in the plural) customs, virtue”
  5. inherited from theu
  6. suffixed as thewy — “thew + y”

Definitions

  1. Muscular

    Muscular; brawny.

  2. Sinewy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at thewy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at thewy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at thewy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA