From: Wordsmith [mailto:wsmith@wordsmith.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 11:13 PM To: dwsbgs@centurytel.net Subject: A.Word.A.Day--pedigree Mar 10, 2011 This week's theme Words with hidden animals This week's words corniche <http://wordsmith.org/words/corniche.html> cynic <http://wordsmith.org/words/cynic.html> aegis <http://wordsmith.org/words/aegis.html> pedigree <http://wordsmith.org/words/pedigree.html> <http://wordsmith.org/words/images/pedigree_large.gif> Proto-Indo-European family The chart showing pedigrees of English and other languages of the Proto-Indo-European family Graphic: <http://www.intersolinc.com/> Susana Turbitt, InterSol, Inc. _____ <http://wordsmith.org/board/> Discuss <http://wordsmith.org/board/> <http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber-form.cgi?request=feedback&username=dws bgs%40centurytel%2enet> Feedback <http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber-form.cgi?request=feedback&username=dws bgs%40centurytel%2enet> <http://wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml> RSS/XML <http://wordsmith.org/awad/rss1.xml> _____ <http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=anugarg&url=http://wordsmith.org/ words/pedigree.html> Bookmark and Share <http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://wordsmith.org/words/pedigree.htm l> Facebook <http://twitter.com/home?status=http://wordsmith.org/words/pedigree.html> Twitter <http://www.digg.com/submit?url=http://wordsmith.org/words/pedigree.html> Digg <http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=http://wordsmith.org/words/p edigree.html> MySpace <http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=anugarg&url=http://wordsmith.org/ words/pedigree.html> Bookmark and Share A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg pedigree PRONUNCIATION: (PED-i-gree) <http://wordsmith.org/words/pedigree.mp3> MEANING: noun: 1. Lineage or ancestry. 2. A distinguished ancestry. 3. The origin or history of a person or thing. ETYMOLOGY: >From Anglo-Norman pé de grue (crane's foot), from p´ (foot) + de (of) + grue (crane), from the resemblance of a crane's foot to the succession lines in a genealogical