Unremacadamized

PRONUNCIATION: (ehn-ree-meh-KAE-deh-mIzd)
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MEANING: (adjective), Having not been covered again with MacAdam stone layers or contemporary macadam.

ETYMOLOGY: Today we have a lexical Dagwood sandwich for you: an English prefix and suffix surrounding bits and pieces of four other languages. The prefix un- “not” and the past participle suffix -ed are pure English. Between them we find the Latinate prefix re- “again”, the Scots Gaelic prefix mac “son of” from “MacAdam,” the inventor of macadam, the Hebrew word adam “man,” and, finally, -ize from the Greek verbal suffix -iz as in archa-iz-ein “to be old fashioned.” God bless the pure piracy of the English language.

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