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salary (n)

/ˈsalərē/


A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee.

Etymology: From the French salarie from the Latin salarium (salary, stipend, originally soldier’s allowance for the purchase of salt) from sal (salt), which comes from the Greek als (salt; Gr: άλς).

Words from the same root: salt, salad, salami

Bet you didn't know salary was coined because wages were paid to allow soldiers to purchase salt...
 
salary (n)

/ˈsalərē/


A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee.

Etymology: From the French salarie from the Latin salarium (salary, stipend, originally soldier’s allowance for the purchase of salt) from sal (salt), which comes from the Greek als (salt; Gr: άλς).

Words from the same root: salt, salad, salami

Bet you didn't know salary was coined because wages were paid to allow soldiers to purchase salt...

Bet you I did... Salt: A World History: Mark Kurlansky: 9780142001615: Amazon.com: Books one of my favorite books.
 
Since I love the letter q, let's go with words that start with "q". (Can you tell I used to love to play Scrabble?)

quire (n)

/kwī(ə)r/



  1. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.  
  2. (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitchedhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stitch together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e., group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
  3. A book, poem, or pamphlet.
  4. (archiac) a choir.
  5. The architectural part of a church in which the choir resides, between the nave and the sanctuary.
Etymology: 1175–1225; Middle English quayer < Middle French quaier < Vulgar Latin *quaternum set of four sheets, derivative of Latin quarternī four each


verb

(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.

third-person singular simple present
quireshttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quires#English, present participle quiringhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quiring#English, simple past and past participle quired)

intransitive: To sing in a choir.

Tomorrow's word: qat.


 
One of my favorite scrabble words because you don't need a "u" to use the "q".

qat

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/qat#Browserskæt kɑːt]n (Law / Recreational Drugs) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a variant spelling of khat

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

kat or khat (kɑt)

n. 1. the leaves of a SW Asian and African shrub, Catha edulis, of the staff-tree family: chewed as a stimulant or made into a tea.
2. the shrub itself.
[1855–60; < Arabic qāt]

Tomorrow's "q" word: quipper

The DH and I play "words that start with q" when we are on road trips.
 
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