Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... British list , not more than six , including those of the two sawbills already cited - merganser and goosander contain any allusion to the birds ' voices . Nor has either duck or drake any connection with sound - production . Indeed ...
... British list , not more than six , including those of the two sawbills already cited - merganser and goosander contain any allusion to the birds ' voices . Nor has either duck or drake any connection with sound - production . Indeed ...
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... British Flora that Hamlet's words , together with the ' gall and wormwood ' of Coverdale's Bible ( of which Shakespeare was probably thinking ) merely suggest to most modern readers the sense of some- thing bitter . But for Hamlet ...
... British Flora that Hamlet's words , together with the ' gall and wormwood ' of Coverdale's Bible ( of which Shakespeare was probably thinking ) merely suggest to most modern readers the sense of some- thing bitter . But for Hamlet ...
الصفحة 309
... British Birds passim ( Magazine ) B.O.U. List , 1952 146 , 155 Bacon , Francis 283 Bacon , Roger 75 Becket , St Thomas 299 Bede 200 , 201 Beebe , William 227 Belloc , Hilaire 124 , 252 Belt , Thomas 53 Bentham & Hooker , Flora passim ...
... British Birds passim ( Magazine ) B.O.U. List , 1952 146 , 155 Bacon , Francis 283 Bacon , Roger 75 Becket , St Thomas 299 Bede 200 , 201 Beebe , William 227 Belloc , Hilaire 124 , 252 Belt , Thomas 53 Bentham & Hooker , Flora passim ...
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16th century adjective ancient animal appears Arabic Aryans became Bible bird bird-names bird's borrowed Britain British called Celtic chaffinch Chapter Chaucer chough cock cognate colour common connected corruption crane denote derived dialect Dictionary diminutive Domesday Book dotterel duck Dutch earlier early England English epithet equivalent etymology fact folk-etymology French genus Germanic languages gives Greek habit heron horse human imitative implies Indo-European instance Italian language lapwing lark Late Latin later Linnaeus Low German Max Müller meaning meant mediaeval Middle Dutch Middle English Natural History nature-words Norse older onomatopoetic origin Parlement of Foules perhaps place-names plant primitive probably provincial name reference represents Roman root Sanskrit Saxon says Scandinavian seems seen sense Shakespeare sound Spanish species speech spelling spelt stem suggest swan Swedish syllable tongue traced tree Turner verb Welsh whence whimbrel wild Willughby woodpecker word wren yellow