Mighty Deep Roots

Silvery

-Having the qualities of silver.  Sometimes used to figuratively describe purity or sleekness.

I don't too much care for "sss" sounds usually, but something about the sibilant sound of silvery combined the the soft buzzing v and the lightly rolled l just speaks to me (the same can be said of Sylvan or Sylvia). Silvery says exactly what it is, whether it's describing a vision, a texture, or a voice.  It evokes pure silver with (to me) a hint of the palest green lightly reflected.  It whispers in my ear as clear as the finest silver bell and slides almost unfelt across the back of my hand.  To be silvery is to show no hint of brass, though it may well imply the steel frame beneath.

The Etymology of Etymology

Etymology is an -ology (study) of etymons, The origins of a word.  This comes from the Greek word etumon, which means the true meaning or true sense of a word (the change came on its way through Latin).  This Greek word probably comes from (or is at least very closely related to) the word etumos, which means simply "True."  At least, you know, that's the word on the street.

This Greek word etumon seems like it could be useful to those of us who often find themselves discussing semantics and language.  There is often some sort of meaning to a word that goes deeper than etymology, connotation, or denotation.  The etumon, as I imagine it being used, expresses the sense of a word, something kin to the Platonic Ideal of it.  Someone remind me to use it.