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Just doing a crossword... Clue: “Throw someone out of a window.” Answer: “Defenestrate”

What kinda language has a specific word for throwing someone out of a window :eek: :th Sounds French in origin so they are equally as crazy :D
 
Pork Pie said:
Just doing a crossword... Clue: “Throw someone out of a window.” Answer: “Defenestrate”

What kinda language has a specific word for throwing someone out of a window :eek: :th Sounds French in origin so they are equally as crazy :D
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Czech... New latin.
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Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.[1] The term was coined around the time of an incident in Prague Castle in the year 1618 which became the spark that started the Thirty Years' War. This was done in "good Bohemian style" and referred to the defenestration which had occurred in Prague's City Hall almost 200 years earlier (July 1419), which also at that occasion led to war, the Hussite war.[2] The word comes from the New Latin[3] de- (out of or away from) and fenestra (window or opening).[4] Likewise, it can also refer to the condition of being thrown out of a window, as in "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch".[5]

While the act of defenestration connotes the forcible or peremptory removal of an adversary, and the term is sometimes used in just that sense,[6] it also suggests breaking the windows in the process (de- also means removal).

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Very interesting article in Wikipedia.... Lots of citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

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