ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “country” - mid-13c., "(one's) native land;" c. 1300, "any geographic area," "region, district,” "(land) spread before one," as "area surrounding a walled city or town
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “seed” - Middle English Figurative sense of "offspring, progeny, posterity," From late 14c. as "act or time of sowing." The meaning "semen, male fecundating fluid,” 🕎 Romans 1:3 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “saint” - early 12c. as an adjective, seinte, "holy, divinely inspired, worthy of worship," from Old French saint, seinte “devout," "one of the elect”, set apart to the services of God,”
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “haughty” - "proud and disdainful," 1520s, a redundant extension of haught (q.v.) "high in one's own estimation" arrogant; presumptuous" 🕎Isaiah 3:16-24 KJV
ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “gentile” - "one who is not a Israelite," c. 1400; (late 14c.), gentilis "of the same family. belonging to the same nation. fellow countrymen, kinsmen," but also "foreigners”