Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 78
... Italian morinello ( L. mōrari , ' to play the fool ' – Gk . mōros , akin to the Skt . mūrkha , ' a fool , a moron3 ) . More attractive is the standard Italian name of piviare tortolino , ' the little turtle - dove plover ...
... Italian morinello ( L. mōrari , ' to play the fool ' – Gk . mōros , akin to the Skt . mūrkha , ' a fool , a moron3 ) . More attractive is the standard Italian name of piviare tortolino , ' the little turtle - dove plover ...
الصفحة 93
... Italian taccola . His Spanish names , grajillo and grajo ( from L. grāculus , an offshoot of gracillare , ' to cackle like a hen ' ) are good examples of names which , however onomato- poetically satisfying , may be traced back to words ...
... Italian taccola . His Spanish names , grajillo and grajo ( from L. grāculus , an offshoot of gracillare , ' to cackle like a hen ' ) are good examples of names which , however onomato- poetically satisfying , may be traced back to words ...
الصفحة 140
... Italian as buffalo and Portuguese as búfalo , reaching English in the Italian form . Būbalus , again presumably for the hartebeest , was used by Pliny and in the Vulgate version of Deuteronomy 14.5 , where it is mentioned as lawful food ...
... Italian as buffalo and Portuguese as búfalo , reaching English in the Italian form . Būbalus , again presumably for the hartebeest , was used by Pliny and in the Vulgate version of Deuteronomy 14.5 , where it is mentioned as lawful food ...
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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