Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 170
... horse ' to take us to two aspects or styles of English reflected in its treatment of the word horse and the use which it makes of the L. caballus . The tendency of Latin c was to become ch ( as in chapeau , formed from chape , L.L. ...
... horse ' to take us to two aspects or styles of English reflected in its treatment of the word horse and the use which it makes of the L. caballus . The tendency of Latin c was to become ch ( as in chapeau , formed from chape , L.L. ...
الصفحة 171
... horse - play , and horse- laugh . Kipling's expression for ' to talk big ' was ' to talk horse ' . Horse - kiss is a dialect word for ' a bite ' , and horse - godmother for ' a virago , romp , or hoyden ' : ' In woman angel sweetness ...
... horse - play , and horse- laugh . Kipling's expression for ' to talk big ' was ' to talk horse ' . Horse - kiss is a dialect word for ' a bite ' , and horse - godmother for ' a virago , romp , or hoyden ' : ' In woman angel sweetness ...
الصفحة 316
... horse - ant 138 horse - fly 138 horse - godmother 171 horse - kiss 171 Horse - latitudes 171 horse - leech 138 horse - mackerel 138 horse - parsley 170 horse - radish 138 , 170 horse - sense 171 horsetail - grass 170 host 258 houbara 79 ...
... horse - ant 138 horse - fly 138 horse - godmother 171 horse - kiss 171 Horse - latitudes 171 horse - leech 138 horse - mackerel 138 horse - parsley 170 horse - radish 138 , 170 horse - sense 171 horsetail - grass 170 host 258 houbara 79 ...
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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