something blue, something new, something borrowed
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Sun
Old English sunne "the sun," from Proto-Germanic *sunnon (source also of Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old High German sunna, Middle Dutch sonne, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Gothic sunno "the sun"), from PIE *s(u)wen-, alternative form of root *sawel- "the sun."
Old English sunne was feminine (as generally in Germanic), and the fem. pronoun was used in English until 16c.; since then masc. has prevailed. The empire on which the sun never sets (1630) originally was the Spanish, later the British. To have one's place in the sun (1680s) is from Pascal's "Pensées"; the German imperial foreign policy sense (1897) is from a speech by von Bülow.
Parasite
parasite
noun
par·a·site \ˈper-ə-ˌsīt, ˈpa-rə-\
1 : There are two kinds of parasitism. The first, more direct, though very wily and devious; the second, more mediate, thematises the relation, complicates it, raises it to relations of relations. As if the para parasite were being invented, as if the difference were differed, as if the distance were distanced. A first ruse, a ruse of the ruse, ad infinitum.