Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 64
... HABITS ' Habit is ten times Nature . ' THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON . THE basis of an animal's name , if found at all , will be found in ( a ) Vocal Utterance , ( b ) Action other than vocal , ( c ) Habitat , normal or occasional , ( d ) ...
... HABITS ' Habit is ten times Nature . ' THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON . THE basis of an animal's name , if found at all , will be found in ( a ) Vocal Utterance , ( b ) Action other than vocal , ( c ) Habitat , normal or occasional , ( d ) ...
الصفحة 67
... habit - named British birds . There are very few English bird - names implying action without explicit reference to voice , food , or bodily movement ; and in most of these few , as might well be anticipated , the search for food , or ...
... habit - named British birds . There are very few English bird - names implying action without explicit reference to voice , food , or bodily movement ; and in most of these few , as might well be anticipated , the search for food , or ...
الصفحة 82
... habit , shared with other grebes , of plopping under water and swimming for some distance before re - emerging . Wader , a general term for shore- and water - haunting birds such as sandpipers , stints , knot , and sanderling , is rich ...
... habit , shared with other grebes , of plopping under water and swimming for some distance before re - emerging . Wader , a general term for shore- and water - haunting birds such as sandpipers , stints , knot , and sanderling , is rich ...
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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