different between palsy vs palsa
palsy
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English palesie, from Anglo-Norman paralisie, parleisie et al., from Latin paralysis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (parálusis, “palsy”), from ??????? (paralú?, “to disable on one side”), from ????- (para-, “beside”) + ??? (lú?, “loosen”). Doublet of paralysis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??lzi/
Noun
palsy (countable and uncountable, plural palsies)
- (pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yo?: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
- The palsie plagues my pulses
- Synonym: paralysis
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
palsy (third-person singular simple present palsies, present participle palsying, simple past and past participle palsied)
- To paralyse, either completely or partially.
- 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public [1]
- In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing "THE LIBERATOR" in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in different sections of the country, was palsied by public indifference.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 2, chapter 9
- Its streets were blocked up with snow - the few passengers seemed palsied with snow, and frozen by the ungenial visitation of winter.
- 1831, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, To The Public [1]
Etymology 2
From pals +? -y.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pælzi/
Adjective
palsy (comparative more palsy, superlative most palsy)
- (colloquial) Chummy, friendly.
Further reading
- palsy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- palsy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- palsy at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- plays, splay, spyal
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palsa
English
Etymology
From Finnish palsa, from Northern Sami balsa.
Noun
palsa (plural palsas)
- (geomorphology) A hummock rising out of a bog with a core of ice; similar in appearance to a pingo but due to different structure palsas cannot grow as big as pingos.
Translations
Anagrams
- alaps, lapas, palas, plaas, salpa
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?ls?/, [?p?ls??]
- Rhymes: -?ls?
- Syllabification: pal?sa
Etymology 1
From Northern Sami balsa.
Noun
palsa
- (geomorphology) palsa
Declension
Etymology 2
Originally a slang shortening of palttoo.
Noun
palsa
- (colloquial) long overcoat
Declension
Synonyms
- palttoo
Anagrams
- salpa
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- what is alos palsar
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