Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... crane ' . The Zoo was full of children . Boys like looking at the other sort of crane , on building - sites . Do they realize that the mechanical crane is so called because it cranes its neck like a crane ? Probably not . I took a ...
... crane ' . The Zoo was full of children . Boys like looking at the other sort of crane , on building - sites . Do they realize that the mechanical crane is so called because it cranes its neck like a crane ? Probably not . I took a ...
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... crane , and not infrequently suggest that , in company with the swift , woodpeckers , plovers ( F. pluvier , ' rain - bird ' ) , and other birds with notably piercing or resounding cries , the crane has from remote times been considered ...
... crane , and not infrequently suggest that , in company with the swift , woodpeckers , plovers ( F. pluvier , ' rain - bird ' ) , and other birds with notably piercing or resounding cries , the crane has from remote times been considered ...
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... crane for the table rises sharply year by year in comparison with that of a heron . It is highly probable that any local transference that there may have been of the name ' crane ' to the heron is comparatively recent . What is most ...
... crane for the table rises sharply year by year in comparison with that of a heron . It is highly probable that any local transference that there may have been of the name ' crane ' to the heron is comparatively recent . What is most ...
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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