The word limerick is a rather peculiar noun
It was named after Luimneach, a small Irish town Because there was a song verse that included its name Often found in these poems, which brought it some fame. So let's break it down: Luimneach comes from lom na each, which was found to have a definition of "grassless horse ground". That developed from Proto-Celtic for over an eon And had the same meanings in Proto-Indo-European But more with a lomm es hekwos sound. Limericks today are usually one verse And normally funny, but they're kept terse They follow a predictable array A rhyme pattern of a/a/b/b/a. Anyway, cool origin to disperse.
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AUTHORHello! I'm Adam Aleksic. This year, I graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Government and Linguistics. There, I co-founded the Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics Society and wrote a thesis on Serbo-Croatian language policy, magna cum laude. In addition to etymology, I also really enjoy philosophy, trivia, vexillology, geography, board games, conlanging, art history, and law.
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