Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 161
... gives dun as a name for the yellow wagtail . The harlequin - duck shares with at least two other kinds of bird the distinction of being named from a parti - coloured dress . ' Pie ' ( M.E. pie or pye ) comes through French from L. picam ...
... gives dun as a name for the yellow wagtail . The harlequin - duck shares with at least two other kinds of bird the distinction of being named from a parti - coloured dress . ' Pie ' ( M.E. pie or pye ) comes through French from L. picam ...
الصفحة 186
... gives secretary , originally , both in its Latin form and in English , ' a confidant ' . It was a later , more Dickensian , kind of secretary , with a bunch of pens behind his ear , who gave his name to the secretary bird , first ...
... gives secretary , originally , both in its Latin form and in English , ' a confidant ' . It was a later , more Dickensian , kind of secretary , with a bunch of pens behind his ear , who gave his name to the secretary bird , first ...
الصفحة 187
... gives us our sept ( part of a clan ) . For farms of which the boundaries were not demarcated by hedges , it was necessary to know where one property finished and the next began . This is exactly what ' finish ' , or the L. finis , first ...
... gives us our sept ( part of a clan ) . For farms of which the boundaries were not demarcated by hedges , it was necessary to know where one property finished and the next began . This is exactly what ' finish ' , or the L. finis , first ...
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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