tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post3145220920188246719..comments2024-03-08T13:38:56.717+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: MedioxumateM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-71846647466006846102011-12-07T20:00:01.940+00:002011-12-07T20:00:01.940+00:00Terry Pratchett's work is full of medioxumate ...Terry Pratchett's work is full of medioxumate gods, like the Oh God of Hangovers, and Anoia, the Goddess of Things that get stuck in drawers. I'm sure there are more!Andrea Kirkbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830930431733160450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-61599672166078528742011-05-06T13:23:28.043+01:002011-05-06T13:23:28.043+01:00When Katmanduvians have a toothache they nail a co...When Katmanduvians have a toothache they nail a coin to an effigy of the toothache God. I actually have a photograph depicting decades of dental suffering in that fine city. I shall show it to you sometime.<br /><br />Peter you know who.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-74950464868954495842011-05-06T13:08:18.318+01:002011-05-06T13:08:18.318+01:00Well the noun is a medioxumus in Latin, and the OE...Well the noun is a medioxumus in Latin, and the OED's best guess is that it's a blend of mediocris and proximus, or middle and near.M.H. Forsythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-39798550569902489112011-05-06T02:48:36.441+01:002011-05-06T02:48:36.441+01:00I am most attracted to the idea of medioxumate god...I am most attracted to the idea of medioxumate gods, middling domestic deities whocan be usefully invoked for finding lostkeys or jewellery, cursing rivals, favourably inclining the beloved to passion, celebrating rituals of passage, and pouring comfortable libations to kindly gods who lack totalitarian ambition. But I am constitutionally unable to use a new word of which I cannot understand the derivation. Medio is obvious, but what is oxumate? Are there megaloxumate and microxumate gods?<br />Liddell and Scott and Partridge on Origins are unhelpful.<br />Help!!<br /><br />Peter Stevenson<br />pstevens@bigpond.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com