ISLAND CABIN

soft sunday, dictionary reading, phone call with mom, the door is open, a small breeze, windchimes, stirfry, noel's gram was in a goofy mood, and then so was everyone we came across, daylight sleeping


ETYMOLOGY OF "WITCH"...............nice family of word meanings
(lively>awake>awaken>one who wakes the dead)

(from yourdictionary.com)

Indo-European Root Etymology

weg-
To be strong, be lively. Oldest form *we-, becoming *weg- in centum languages.
Derivatives include watch, vigilante, reveille, and velocity.
Suffixed o-grade form *wog--. WAKE1, from Old English wacan, to wake up, arise, and wacian, to be awake, from Germanic *wakn.
Suffixed o-grade form *wog-no-. WAKEN, from Old English wæcnan, wæcnian, to awake, from Germanic *waknan.
WATCH, from Old English wæccan, to be awake, from Germanic *wakjan.
Suffixed form *weg-yo-. WICCA, WICKED, WITCH; BEWITCH, from Old English wicca, sorcerer, wizard (feminine wicce, witch), from Germanic *wikkjaz, necromancer (< "one who wakes the dead").
BIVOUAC, from Old High German wahta, watch, vigil, from Germanic *wahtw.
WAIT, from Old North French waitier, to watch;
WAFT, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wachten, to watch, guard. Both a and b from Germanic *waht-.
Suffixed (causative) o-grade form *wog-eyo-. VEGETABLE, from Latin vegre, to be lively.
Suffixed (stative) form *weg--. VIGOR; RAVIGOTE, from Latin vigre, to be lively.
Suffixed form *weg-(e)li-. VEDETTE, VIGIL, VIGILANT, VIGILANTE; REVEILLE, SURVEILLANT, from Latin vigil, watchful, awake.
Suffixed form *weg-slo-. VELOCITY, from Latin vlx, fast, "lively."


In the OED there was also something about a branch that springs back fast, and maybe that's the sense of lively here. or maybe it's the kindling. but then i couldn't find it again.