Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... French word possibly of Celtic origin ) . Brace , denoting a couple of game - birds when the association of a conjugal pair is not implied , is from a French form of L. bracchia , ' the two arms ' . Charm ( from an O.E. word cyrm ...
... French word possibly of Celtic origin ) . Brace , denoting a couple of game - birds when the association of a conjugal pair is not implied , is from a French form of L. bracchia , ' the two arms ' . Charm ( from an O.E. word cyrm ...
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... French , we have nave ( which in a church is like a ship inverted ) , navy , nautical , nautilus , and other developments . Our nausea is , according to one theory , the same Latin word taken from Gk . nausia , which , again through French ...
... French , we have nave ( which in a church is like a ship inverted ) , navy , nautical , nautilus , and other developments . Our nausea is , according to one theory , the same Latin word taken from Gk . nausia , which , again through French ...
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... French to borrow its sharp - tongued metaphorical use of the words torcher fauvel , ' to curry the ( best ) chestnut horse ' – in other words , ' to butter up the most important person ' . ( Favel the horse was the hero , symbolizing ...
... French to borrow its sharp - tongued metaphorical use of the words torcher fauvel , ' to curry the ( best ) chestnut horse ' – in other words , ' to butter up the most important person ' . ( Favel the horse was the hero , symbolizing ...
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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