trun·dled, trun·dling. to cause (a circular object) to roll along; roll. to convey or move in a wagon, cart, or other wheeled vehicle; wheel: The farmer trundled his produce to market in a rickety wagon. Archaic. to cause to rotate; twirl; spin.
Cars don't trundle, overloaded trucks do.
Trundle seemed appropriate.
>wheel
>rotate
Trundle sounds vaguely treadmill, which also has something to do with rotation :)
Wonder if the two words are etymologically related.
(The word is not use much nowadays; archaic, as the dictionary entry says.)
I was only speculating about the connection between the two words (trundle and treadmill), because they sound vaguely similar. Maybe they have a common Latin or Old English or Old German root, as many English words do.
Update: I checked, and it seems I may have been partly / loosely correct about the etymological connection:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trundle
Etymology
Noun and Verb
from trundle small wheel, alteration of earlier trendle, from Middle English, circle, ring, wheel, from Old English trendel; akin to Old English trendan to revolve
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treadmill
c : a mill worked by persons treading on steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tread
tread 2 of 2 noun 1 a(1) : the part of a wheel or tire that makes contact with a road or rail
Italics mine.
Tread derives from Middle English treden; the difference here is to step vs to roll. The latter definition you cite is a newer usage (from the 20th century) which is more directly analogous to the tread on the bottom of one's shoe.
The use of a wheel in a treadmill seems more like an implementation detail; the obvious tie-in (IMO) is "persons treading on steps".
I meant to write:
vaguely like treadmill
”Type in haste, correct at leisure" - Me.
Like the quote: "Marry in haste, repent at leisure".
:)
If you liked that, you must read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, if not already read.
He was a polymath: a businessman, a scientist, a diplomat, and much more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjami...
>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
>Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher.[1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.[2]
"regret" at leisure would make more sense, because "repent" doesn't really have the right meaning (is more about wrongdoing/sin).
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/married-in-haste.html
Phrases are sometimes literally meaningless.
>"regret" at leisure would make more sense, because "repent" doesn't really have the right meaning (is more about wrongdoing/sin).
Makes sense, now that I read you say it, though I had not thought of that before.
That wouldn't work at all; "regret" doesn't have an intransitive use. You have to be regretting something.
there is a term for your latter point:
poetic licence:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_license
aside: I realize i also kind of applied artistic licence in my comment here :), by not capitalizing the first words of my sentences, partly because feeling a bit lazy (on my mobile, typing is tedious and slow enough, even without switching case), and partly because I think single case (no concept of upper and lower case) is a better option.
sanskrit, for example, does not have upper and lower case, just one case, or maybe none.
go figure, er, i mean, go letter ;)
What? Where'd you learn English?
Take a look at the first two senses listed in wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marry#Etymology_1 ):
> 1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state
> 2. (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
It's a transitive verb.
The problem in your sentence is that the plain form of a verb is used for states, not activities, and marrying is an activity.
"I am marrying today" is just as intransitive, but without the artificially induced grammatical error.
That's not a valid sentence, unless the person you are to wed is named "Today". Such is stuff as Abbott and Costello cashed in on.
Of course, taken in context there may be implied antecedents in spoken dialog. Spoken dialog is often incomplete and rife with implied antecedents and frequently does not follow the rules of grammer. Sentence fragments and one-word sentences can about because of that.
"trundle" is related to "trend", also German "trent" and "entrinnen".
"tread" is related to "trot" and "trade".
ModE tread < MidE treden < OE tredan < PWG *tredan < PG *trudaną < PIE *dreh₂
ModE trade < MidE trade (meaning "track") < MLG trade < OSax trada < PG *tradō < PIE *dreh₂
Also possibly related, assuming we merge the PID *dre_ variants which all have similar meanings:
tramp[le]
trap (something that gets stepped on)
dromedary
palindrome (run back again)
? troll
? dorm (allegedly there's an old "sleep" meaning with the same spelling - this is unrelated to "dream, draugr" which means "deceive" though!)