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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Man would multiply and replentish the earth through a union with the woman. ... She would according to the original command multiply and replentish the earth
These sims require the user to periodically replentish their needs, socialize, and buy new stuff.
So if you have a choice of storing gas or diesel, and gas usually doesn’t have to be replentished by truck,
Tom Cruise replentishes the worlds oil supply by draining Al Gores hair!
Richard resting his back and replentishing calories at Steam Mill pictures and videos from Webshots.
It had about 20K hits a couple of years ago. I also have recorded, from a niece,
time to replentyish the supply.
but she is one who would have said it purposefully, and I haven’t been able to confirm it on Google.
I presume that the stem plen (=’full’) is the same in replenish, plenary, and plenty. If so, this eggcorn, instead of introducing a new and historically wrong analysis, rather clarifies the real etymology, since plent is likely to be more recognizable than plen alone.
Sure enough —just checked— about 1.5K ghits on plentary (though many of them are aiming for planetary):
Amazon.com: The media and arms control: A plentary lecture presented at the AAAS annual meeting May 1986.
Yushchenko’s Speech at the Plentary Session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-06-15 19:52:57)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Replenish derives from Anglo-Norman French plenir, ‘to fill’.
Plenty derives from Old French (via Anglo-Norman) plentet, ‘abundance’.
Thus it is a standard reshaping via near-homophones, rather than a recovered etymology.
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OK, but plentet and plenir both come from Latin, ultimately. plenus ‘full, complete’, plene ‘fully, completely’, same stem actually in complere > completus ‘to fill up’ > ‘filled up’ whence our complete, or in replere > repletus ‘to refill, to fill up’ > ‘full, refilled’ whence our ‘replete’. Ultimately the same root is involved in all of these.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Yes, that occurred to me soon after I hit “submit”. I didn’t bother to track it back any further than the OED’s Anglo-French etymology.
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