A waypost is an old word — first written down in 1773 — for a finger-post: the marker at a fork in the road with an arm pointing the way. Take the word apart and it is already about everything here. Way comes from an ancient root meaning to move, to carry, to journey — the same root as voyage. Post is stranger: it is Latin postis, a doorpost — a threshold you choose to cross; it is ponere, to place — something set down with care; and it is posta, the relay station where a rider changed horses so the message could travel on. Movement, a doorway, a careful placing, a place to change horses: all hiding in one small word. And quest and question are one word too — both from quaerere, to seek. A question taken up by consent is a quest.
In the Scottish hills there is a blessing for adding a stone to a cairn: Cuiridh mi clach air do chàrn — "I'll put a stone on your cairn," which really means I won't forget you.
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