One Word Per Week: Hyperborean

Well, according to the website, hyperborean means "Of or pertaining to the region beyond the North wind or to its inhabitants". I wasn't expecting this blog to be a vocabulary lesson for me. I guess hyper- in this case means to extend. And -borean has something to do about the wind. That suffix or root (whatever it is) does seem familiar. There another more common word that uses it...

I can't think of it now. After I'm done writing I will search for it. Maybe it has something to do with those northern lights caused by the radiation from the sun.

The first I thought of when seeing this word was "boolean" perhaps because I am a computer engineer. And before today, I'm pretty sure that I haven't heard of hyperborean at all.

Hyper-bowling

Hyper-boring

Hyper-borat

Hyper-bole

Hyper-bean

Hyper-beam

Hyper-Korean

...just some other words that come to the top of my head just by looking at the word.

 - Danial Goodwin -

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