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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for October 7, 1999
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such [adj., adv., pron. SUCH]
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This word has many fine shades of meaning. The clearest and most
common sense is "of this kind," but it can also mean "to so extreme a
degree," or "especially." As a pronoun, it has several subtly
different meanings centering around "this one that is being
indicated." Example (as an adjective): "Joe was a retired fisherman,
one of many such people in his town."
Like many short, common words, such has been with us for a very long
time. The prehistoric Germanic root was a compound of *swa (so) and
*lik- (form, body). From *swa we also have the modern word so, and
from *lik- we have like. In Old English, the root evolved to swylc
(so formed), which gradually changed to the modern form of such.
Ancient words often have close cognates in related languages. In
German, such is solch. It's zulk in Dutch, slik in Swedish, and slig
in Danish.
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