Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... colour - blind , and do not develop complete colour - discrimination until late in their second year , it has been suggested that man himself was long in developing full physical ability to distinguish colours . Proud mothers are apt to ...
... colour - blind , and do not develop complete colour - discrimination until late in their second year , it has been suggested that man himself was long in developing full physical ability to distinguish colours . Proud mothers are apt to ...
الصفحة 154
... colour to primitive man , whose life was essentially practical – all these are factors in the confusion of colour - names in different languages . - Perhaps we need to keep all this in proper perspective by realizing that even now the ...
... colour to primitive man , whose life was essentially practical – all these are factors in the confusion of colour - names in different languages . - Perhaps we need to keep all this in proper perspective by realizing that even now the ...
الصفحة 157
... colour of the citron - which , through Italian , provides the epithet for the citril finch , and , through French , that for the citrine wagtail . It is difficult to dismiss this attempt to solve the problem in view of the colour of the ...
... colour of the citron - which , through Italian , provides the epithet for the citril finch , and , through French , that for the citrine wagtail . It is difficult to dismiss this attempt to solve the problem in view of the colour of the ...
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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