Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology, (griech.) etymología, (lat.) etymologia, (esper.) etimologio
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Kinder, Enfants, Children, (esper.) infanoj

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babysitter (W3)

Eeny Meeny (W3)

counting out rhyme engl. "eeny meeny miny moe" - dt. "ene, mene, muh"

Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Peter A. McGraw

• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Janis Vizier Nihart
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Wilson Gray
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Jonathan Lighter
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• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Orion Montoya
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Wilson Gray
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe sagehen
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Wilson Gray
• Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Se?n Fitzpatrick

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• dot-com wanes; eny, meny, miny, mo Arnold Zwicky
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• dot-com wanes; eny, meny, miny, mo Arnold Zwicky
• dot-com wanes; eny, meny, miny, mo Steve K.
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• Eenie Meenie Aaron E. Drews
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts Warren Brewer
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts Arnold Zwicky
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts A. Maberry
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts Bethany K. Dumas
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts Greg Roberts
• Eenie Meenie & Hazelnuts Russ McClay
• eeny meeny Robin Chambers
• eny, meny, miny, mo Peter A. McGraw
• eny, meny, miny, mo Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM
• eny, meny, miny, mo James Smith

eeny meeny Robin Chambers

Kid Songs and Rhymes of Germany
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dt. "Ene mene miste" - engl. "Eeny meeny miney mo" (Counting-out Rhyme)

Limericks on "eeny meeny miny moe"
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe is the first phrase from a short nursery rhyme that children chant when they choose someone to sit out or be "it" for a game. The child who is pointed-at by the chanter on the last syllable of the rhyme is "out".

Limericks on "eeny, meeny, miny, moe"

Origin

Of all of the phrases and idioms in the English language 'eeny, meenie, miny, mo' must be the one with the widest variety of spellings. I've opted for 'Eeny, meeny, miny, mo' but there are many others - 'Eenie, meenie, miney, moe', 'Eany, meany, miney, mo' and so on. Added to that, as far back as the 19th century there have been variants of the rhyme which are so dissimilar to our current version as to be scarcely recognisable - 'Hana, mana, mona, mike' (from New York) and 'Eetern, feetern, peeny, pump' (from Scotland) and many of these now have local variants and words added from other languages.
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Eeny Meeny Miny Moe Songtext

On Language

Losing Count

April 16, 2015 | by Adrienne Raphel

“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes.
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"Eeny meeny miny mo" is one of those rhymes that’s ingrained in our cultural limbic system—once we hear the first two syllables, the rest unspools whether we want it to or not. No one knows what eeny or meeny might mean; everybody knows what "eeny meeny" means. It turns up in strange places: in Pulp Fiction, in the Great Vermont Corn Maze, in Justin Bieber songs. But where did "eeny meeny" come from? Kipling tells us that “Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, and Mo / Were the First Big Four of the Long Ago,” but that’s not such a good lead.

What we do know is that once "Eeny Meeny" appeared on the scene, it was everywhere. In the fifties and sixties, the formidable husband-and-wife folklorists Iona and Peter Opie recorded hundreds of varieties in England and America, including, to name just a few:
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

Sometimes used as a childrens rhyme but teens/adults use it as making a dificult decision... instead of chosing rock, paper, scissors-They use Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
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Eeny meeny miny moe

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe", which can be spelled a number of ways, is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag. It is one of a large group of similar 'counting-out rhymes' where the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is 'counted out'. The rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820,[1] and is common in many languages with similar-sounding nonsense syllables.

Since many similar counting rhymes existed earlier, it is difficult to ascertain this rhyme's exact origin.
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Origins

The first record of a similar rhyme is from about 1815, when children in the United States city of New York are said to have repeated the rhyme:
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Iona Archibald Opie (born 13 October 1923) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 - 5 February 1982) were a married team of folklorists, who applied modern techniques to children's literature, summarized in their studies The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). They are also noted anthologists, and assembled large collections of children's literature, toys, and games.
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Eeny meeny miny moe

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe - English Nursery Rhyme with Lyrics

parachute kids (W3)

Children sent to a new country to live alone or with a caregiver while their parents remain in their home country.

Ring a ring of roses (W3)

twee (W3)

"twee" (adj.) "tiny", "dainty", "miniature", 1905, from childish pronunciation of "sweet" (adj.). Compare "tummy" from "stomach".