[NPPF] The Incest Taboo

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Thu Sep 4 12:40:46 CDT 2003


>>> There is no rule against castling a Queen. <<<

SYLLABICATION: cas·tle
PRONUNCIATION:   ksl

INTRANSITIVE VERB: Games To move the king in chess from its own square two
empty squares to one side and then, in the same move, bring the rook from
that side to the square immediately past the new position of the king.
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To place in or as if in a castle. 2. Games To move (the
king in chess) by castling.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English castel, from Old English and from Norman French,
both from Latin castellum, diminutive of castrum. See kes- in Appendix I.

ENTRY: kes-
DEFINITION: To cut. Oldest form *es-, becoming *kes- in centum languages.
Variant *kas-. 1. Suffixed form *kas-tro-. a. castrate, from Latin castrre,
to castrate; b. alcazar, castellan, castellated, castle, from Latin castrum,
fortified place, camp (perhaps "separated place"). 2. Suffixed form
*kas-to-. caste, chaste; castigate, incest, from Latin castus, chaste, pure
(< "cut off from or free of faults"). 3. Suffixed (stative) form *kas--.
caret, from Latin carre, "to be cut off from," lack. 4. Extended geminated
form *kasso-. cashier, quash1, cassation, from Latin cassus, empty, void.
(Pokorny es- 586.)

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