Words under the lens: English word "EXCOMMUNICATE"
EXCOMMUNICATE
The English word EXCOMMUNICATE is defined as follows in the Encarta® World English
Dictionary:
1.
vt.: to exclude a baptized Christian from taking part in Communion because of
doctrine or moral behavior that is adjudged to offend against God or the
Christian community.
2. adj.: having been officially excluded from taking part in
the Eucharist.
3. n.: somebody who has been officially excluded from
taking part in the Eucharist.
The letter X in the
word EXCOMMUNICATE is a symbol of deceptive nature. It gives the "KS"
sound and in actuality it replaces and disguises letters K and S present in the
source Turkish expression used to make up this word. Similarly, one of the
letters "C", voiced as "K" sound, is a letter "S"
in the original source text. It is just like the letters C in the English
word ACCESS which is voiced as "AK-SES".
When the word EXCOMMUNICATE is rearranged (deciphered)
letter-by-letter as "CONUSMAE-KECTIM", it is found to be an anagrammatized and disguised form of
the Turkish expression "KONUŞMAYI KESTIM" meaning "I cut-off the communication". This
is exactly what is meant by the word EXCOMMUNICATE and is done
accordingly. Irrespective of the etymologies attributed to this word in
the dictionaries, the source of this English word is unquestionably Turkish.
Best wishes to all,
Polat Kaya