As far as I know, this is the largest real word in English—27 letters long (did I count right?).There are the names of organic chemicals in the jargon of that field that are longer, but these don’t count, since they are hyphenated constructs. There is also a made-up word in the song from the movie Mary Poppins, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Since this word has no meaning, it doesn’t count either, although it illustrates how English can concatenate syllables together to make English-seeming nonsense words. 

The Greek word for god is theus. The Latin word is deus. (Et is the Latin word for and, so we have etc., the abbreviation of et cetera—and so forth).

That the Greek and Latin words for god are so similar comes from the fact that both languages belong to the Indo-European family of languages.

“Home is where the heart is,” goes the cliché. The idea is that one’s home is an emotional place—the place where one belongs, while one’s house is merely a building one resides in.

There are many English words built from the Latin word portare, which meant, “to carry.”  Some of these words, like the word portage, came more or less directly from the Latin.  Others came into English indirectly from Latin, via French (such as portmanteau) or Italian or even Portuguese (port wine is a strong, seasoned wine that was originally made in Porto, Portugal—a Portuguese port—how “portly” can one get).

A child caught lying to his friends will be humiliated as the friends chant this false rhyme:  “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”  (It is a false rhyme because liar and fire do not actually rhyme—liar has two syllables and fire only one.  The children chanting the rhyme will pronounce fire as though it had two syllables).

Of course, the lying child will deny being a liar, but children are merciless sometimes.  Probably that is better for the lying child than the more polite way a mature adult handles a liar—by saying nothing.  The notion of one’s pants being ablaze suits a child’s notion of the “heat” of being caught in a lie.

Fear is a natural human emotion, no doubt evolved to reinforce behavior that helps us survive.  Many animals, including monkeys and other primates in nature exhibit instinctive fear of spiders or snakes or scorpions (although much of the human fears of this sort are probably picked up when we are children watching the behavior of adults).