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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I guess a cherishmatic person is one you would cherish automatically – though I don’t think you need to see the second half of the reshaping as a truncation of “automatic†to make this work semantically.
This is an “eye eggcorn†that’s unlikely to be spreading among native speakers, and in fact it appears that pretty much all of the users of the term are of South Asian origin. We don’t use tags on this site, but I’m going to put the phrase “South Asian regionalism†right here – we’ve documented so many of these that I want to be able to keep track of them. Examples:
I am a cherishmatic individual who is good at making people smile.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/15420663864994059598
I have not come across such cherishmatic personality in my life.
http://www.ravidassiauk.co.uk/content/r … anand-ji-0
I appeal to Budhaji the cherishmatic CM not to get disappointed but take this opportunist politicians to task and show the people of WB and India the character of such people
http://messageboard.rediff.com/newboard … nd_WB.html
The cherishmatic leadership of Bangabandho the World Statesmen recognized Bangladesh. Bangabandhu persuaded the UN and world leaders to obtain Bangladesh’s UN membership.
http://mbhuiyan.wordpress.com/
I don’t tend to do the Indo-European root thing much, but this case turned out to be a bit surprising. I assumed “cherish†and “charisma†went back to different sources, and I was right – but they’re both from roots meaning “to like, desire.†“Cherish†goes back to IE kÄ-, which also gives us “caress,†“charity,†“Kamasutra,†and “whore.†“Charisma goes back to gher-(5) in Calvert Watkins’ arrangement, and it’s related to “yearn,†“greedy,†“catachresis†and (of course) “chervil.†It’s kinda neat that this particular reshaping has united two IE roots with the same basic meaning.
[Later edit: I don’t know what’s causing the weird formatting, but I’m too tired to try to get rid of it. Later edit still: moving citations around got rid of the visible formatting problem, but now the page will only show four of my five examples no matter what I do. Huh. Well, no big loss.]
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Excellent. I think I may also have found one similar substitution based on your list of cognates: “cherishable” for charitable.
Moral support for Yemeni students abroad:
Islam incorporated freeing the slaves into its legislative system. If you go back on your YAMEEN, killed someone بالخطأ or even punished your slave, the kaffarah was usually to free them…It even made it a cherishable act to free your slaves for no reason.
(http://www.ysaa.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.ph … &view=next)
And Michael Jackson had pure “cherishma”. Forgive me for including some of the other interesting responses below:
Q. What propelled Michael Jackson to legendary status? Asked by whydidyoudothistome 18 day(s) ago in category Music
A3. Because he was euneache. Says Rajesh Bangad
A6. Luck has played well in all his moves. Besides the gift of art added to his cherishma. Says Ganesh YagatiSubrahmanya
A11. His unique style of dancing which made him an icon for youger generation. He had a mesmerising stage presence. Behind all this was offcourse his hard work and dedication to his style of music. Says sunil sharma
(http://world1.rediff.com/qna/answers/14966306)
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