War
From late Old English (c.1050), wyrre, werre, from Old North French werre “war” (Fr. guerre), from Frankish*werra, from Proto-Germanic *werso (Compare with Old Saxon werran,Old high German werran, German verwirren “to confuse, perplex“). Cognates suggest the original sense was “to bring into confusion.”
There was no common Germanic word for “war” at the dawn of historical times. Spanish, Portuguese, Italianguerra are from the same source;
Romanic peoples turned to Germanic for a word to avoid Latin “bellum” because its form tended to merge with bello- “beautiful.”[9]
“I witnessed the last throws of dying sholes, and finally I pricked up my ears to the water people, my brothers. I understood that water and life were inexorably bound and that I must spend my own career fighting to protect that life and to safe-guard future generations. Tomorrow I will demand that the rights of generations to come be written in the duties of the living ones. If with such enterprises that make it possible for our children, and our children not yet born to live with dignity in a world symphony, I will have fulfilled my mission.” – Jacques Cousteau
Now that we have stripped ‘war’ of its ceremonial gown: there’s a hole in the bottom of the sea – and nature…
abhors a vacuum
