ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “lord” - mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, feudal lord, superior; husband," also "God," 🕎 1 Corinthians 11:3 & Matthew 22;44-46 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “seed” - Middle English Figurative sense of "offspring, progeny, posterity," From late 14c. as "act or time of sowing." The meaning "semen, male fecundating fluid,” 🕎 Romans 1:3 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “gentile” - "one who is not a Israelite," c. 1400; (late 14c.), gentilis "of the same family. belonging to the same nation. fellow countrymen, kinsmen," but also "foreigners”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “rich” - Old English rice "strong, powerful; great, mighty; of high rank" (senses now obsolete), in later Old English "wealthy;" 🕎2 Corinthians 8:9 & Revelation 2:9 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “haughty” - "proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" arrogant; presumptuous" 🕎Isaiah 3:16-24 KJV