... assigned to paint over them and finally the day came when, rather reluctantly, I got hold of some paint and a brush As I finished applying the second coat of paint to the patch of the wall where once the ... (to cut) This word is not related to the word scissors The two have entirely different roots Scissors ultimately came from Latin cisorium (cutting tool) though on the way it was influenced by the ... from the Indo-European root gen- (to give birth), the source of words such as generate, engine, indigenous, and germ ● The theory that the Highlanders were impregnable may be supportable, but the...