“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“The word hierarchy comes from the Greek hieros, meaning ‘sacred,’ and arche, meaning ‘rule.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“The word wife comes from the Proto-Indo-European weip. Weip means to turn, twist, or wrap. In an alternative etymology, the word wife comes from Proto-etc., ghwibh. Ghwibh means pudenda. Or shame.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“The term 'catholic' (katholikos, a Greek word adopted by the Latin Church) does not mean universal (that is, 'inclusive,' 'encompassing,' and hence by implication to some degree bounding) but rather, in its Greek etymology, kata + holos, through-the-whole, outgoing, expansive.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com