“Where is this word coming from?”

Selling

• In Proto-Germanic language (spoken about 2000-2500 years ago), “saljana” meant “to offer”, “to give”
• In Gothic language (spoken starting around year 400), “saljan” meant “to offer a sacrifice” or “to cause to take”
• In Old English, or Anglo-Saxon (spoken starting around year 500), “sellan” meant “to give”, “to grant”, “to hand over”, “to deliver”
• In Latin, “consilium” meant “to give advice”

Influence

• In Latin, “influere” meant “in flow”, “to flow”

Enthusiasm

• In Greek, “enthousiazein” means “be inspired or possessed by a god, be rapt, be in ecstasy”;
• from Greek “entheos = the God within, divinely inspired, possessed by a god; it’s a compound word, from: “en-“, meaning “in” and “theos“, meaning “god”
• from Greek enthousiasmos = “divine inspiration”
• the happiest, most interesting people are those who have found the secret of maintaining their enthusiasm, that God within