threshold
This noun has a few interesting facets:
1.) a section of wood or stone that lies under a doorway;
2.) a means or place of entry, or a place at the beginning of something;
3.) the point or level at which a physical or mental effect begins to be produced, as in "pain threshold": at which level do you begin to feel it?
According to Oxford Dictionaries, threshold is an Old English word - thresh being related to tread in a Germanic sense, and hold (perhaps) emphasizing "place to tread." This leads me to believe that the naming of Thresh in The Hunger Games was not entirely coincidental. In fact, it probably wasn't.
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