[Fictionary] HYETAL results!

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Many years ago, my husband David had a hiatal  (sp? and no time to check) hernia, which was an enlargement of the hole in the diaphragm that surrounds the esophagus/stomach and allows it to pass through.  In other words, the diaphragm separates the chest from the intestines and must have a passageway for the top of the digestive organs to pass to the bottom of the organs. If the hole is too large, the stomach moves up into the area above, and  pain results.  Narrowing the hole can be done surgically, or with exercises.  David was told to merely run before eating lunch, not after.  No more pain. Linda
 
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] HYETAL results!
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:32:29 -0500

I apologize for the unexpected delay -- I had a major computer 
problem last week, when I tried to replace my laptop's internal hard 
drive with a solid state drive and ended up with a laptop that 
wouldn't recognize either the new drive or the old.  But things are 
better now (and wow, the SSD makes for a huge speed improvement!), so 
I'm ready to reveal that Elliott blew this round of fictionary out of 
the water, with his shadowy definition, which netted a 
possible-record 13 points from eight voters (I'm omitting the ninth 
voter, Elliott himself). The actual definition got zero votes, so I'm 
declaring myself the runner-up :^)   I'm honestly amazed that such a 
brief term for "pertaining to rain" isn't in more common use; I'd 
certainly never come across it before.

Full results follow; have yourself a merry winter holiday, and 
prepare for Elliott's round!


hyetal - 1. adj.  Open to the sky but overshadowed year-round.  2. n. 
The territory permanently in the shadow of a given relief feature, 
as, the hyetal of the Matterhorn.
   by ELLIOTT
2 points each from Ranjit, David, Nick, Linda, Eric, and Jean-Joseph
1 point from Jed
Nick: "Because it reminded me of that alpine town that installed 
giant mirrors to stave off Seasonal Affective Disorder."
Eric: "For the clever noun"
Elliott: "Someone must have a name for this (ecologists?  orienteers? 
real-estate agents?).  It was inspired by Lat. hiems `winter' plus 
Ger. Tal `valley', but in retrospect it looks like I partly 
plagiarized my own ``koonting'' def from a year ago about barnacles 
growing on the shady side of the hull."
Jean-Joseph: "Not that I believe it, but I think it's an interesting 
definition."

hyetal, n. An extinct mammal, ancestor to the hyena, much resembling the wolf.
   by RANJIT
2 points from Elliott
Elliott: "This is written like something out of an actual book, so I 
will give it two points.  It should have a mysterious giant relative 
in the snows of Tibet called a hyeti."

hyetal, adj. Of or relating to rain or rainy regions.
   REAL - from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Elliott: "No reason to vote for or against."
Elliott (after looking it up:)  "OED says it's from Greek huEtOs 
`rain', and gives no quotations.  Google ngram viewer says it 
appeared in 1854, peaked in the late 1850s with what seems to be a 
minor craze for ``hyetal charts'', and it's been pretty much downhill 
ever since.  Nice word!"

hyetal, adj. Both spiny and rugose.
   by DAVID
Eric: "Lovely.  But if it were real, Lovecraft would have used it."
Elliott: "Like a wooly bear!"

hyetal, n. (ca. 1885, from Norwegian) 1. A plowed field. 2. A forest 
clearing approved for plowing by the Minnesota Land Commission.
   by NICK
1 point each from Linda and Elliott
Linda: "For being a noun in the midst of adj's."
Elliott: "For creativity.  Also, Norwegian things often have y's in them."

hyetal, adj. Lasting 12 synodic months (364.367 days).
   by JEAN-JOSEPH
1 point from Eric
Elliott: "Don't know what a synodic month is, so I'd better not chance it."
Hutch: "Pretty sure this is 'synodical'."

hyetal, adj. Of or pertaining to shrubs.
   by ERIC
1 point each from David, Jean-Joseph, and Hutch
Elliott: "The funniest def of the lot, and that only because it 
mentions shrubs. Why was everyone so serious this time?"
Jean-Joseph: "More credible."

hyetal, adj (obs.) Unrelated.
   by HUTCH
2 points each from Jed
Elliott: "No reason to vote for or against."

hyetal, adj. Of the part of the diaphragm that surrounds the 
stomach/esophagus and separates them unless stretched.  fr. Gray's 
Anatomy.
   by LINDA
2 points from Hutch
1 point each from Ranjit, Nick
Eric: "Hymeneal?"
Elliott: "Separates the stomach from the esophagus?  How would that work?"


Elliott: "Everyone was so serious this time!  Weird."
Jed: "And I have no points to give (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum) to these two, 
but I do admire them:
>  hyetal, adj. Both spiny and rugose.
>  hyetal, adj. Lasting 12 synodic months (364.367 days)."



-Jim

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