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or:si:j c? word “wagon”*nI Comes from Ccme Aryan Root as Doss “Wagging and “Way,” Mean-sn | ing a Path.In the first book of riddles ever written was the conundrum: “Why is 0f a toll sate like a dead dog’s tail? Be-v- cause it stops a wagin.”^ Atrocious as appears the pun thatc. tries to juggle with “wagon” and “wag-at Sing,” it is really better than the writ-e- er of the atrocity and the casual y. reader ever - knew, for “wagon” and kr “wagging” are identical and are chil-ie | dren of a long line of honored ancestry.ie I It is the motion that makes them ie [ alike, and this idea of motion dates far back to the days when the Aryan p, languages, now reaching from the east ij. coast of India to the west coast of the0- United States, were one tongue in the»d beginning of its formation.[e The root from which they grew is •i. “wagh,” and one meaning of it is the s. same as our “wag,” as it signifies go-•y ing from side to side, to move, to car-,t- ry» to pass over and turning from one •lt;j point to another.te This root lies at the foundation of te our world “way,” whether we use it as a -road, or path, or distance, or di-lb I rection. It is what we move over, or d I the direction we move, or the distance ib we move. Even if we want opr own il “way,” it is the manner in which weis I see fit to move. In our “wagon” it is;o I the thing that moves and In the dog’s te I tail the sort of motion.lb v All similar words come to our Eng-e I lish more directly through the Teuton-d I ic base “wega, which means both a e-| way and to wag. When the root went into the Sanscrit the “w” got the “V”1- sound, so our East Indian brothers s say “vah” for carry and call a road s vehicle and a horse all “vaha.”In the Latin it became “via,” whichwe use for way, and through which we get our “viaduct” and “vehicle.” s In all of the words in all of the va-f rious languages into which “wagh” has e gone there is always the idea of the 5- thing that moves, the path over which v it movers or the manner of its motion, a —New York Herald.-✓
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Manitowoc Daily Tribune
Manitowoc, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Sep 22, 1909
Page 4
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