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1. trebligdivad ◴[] No.42482318[source]
two nice words in there that are new to me; 'hadal' and raptorial'
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2. AnthonBerg ◴[] No.42485808[source]
Didn’t notice ‘hadal’! Kind of glid by. Thanks!

Looked up the meaning and the roots of the word. Feel compelled to mention that the etymology is pretty wild.

hadal: “of or relating to the deepest ocean; beyond 6000 meters” ← Hades, Greek god of the underworld ← ᾍδης (Hā́idēs)

which is

‘Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not”)+‎ *weyd- (“see”) +‎ *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “that which is unseen”

or

← ‘from *sm̥weyd-(from *sm̥- (compounding stem) +‎ *weyd-(“see”) +‎ *-ēs (“adjectival suffix”), literally “see-together” or “uniter”)’

… according to Wiktionary: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ᾍδης

That’ll be one exploding-head emoji for me please.