Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... interest . What was the origin of privet , Ligustrum vulgare , recorded first in 1542 ? It was also called prim - print , and at about the same date appears a verb prime , ' to prune ' , which still exists in dialect ; but a Scots ...
... interest . What was the origin of privet , Ligustrum vulgare , recorded first in 1542 ? It was also called prim - print , and at about the same date appears a verb prime , ' to prune ' , which still exists in dialect ; but a Scots ...
الصفحة 244
... interest became due on the first day of the month . Such days had to be publicly announced . They were Kalendae , from kalere or calere , Gk . kalein , ' to call , to proclaim ' . The antiquity of the word is shown by the fact that it ...
... interest became due on the first day of the month . Such days had to be publicly announced . They were Kalendae , from kalere or calere , Gk . kalein , ' to call , to proclaim ' . The antiquity of the word is shown by the fact that it ...
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... interest in the wildings of the hills , even if their interest was gastronomic . They had moreover a particular feeling – a feeling of awe - for a creature which might in appearance be a hare , but in reality be a Wise Woman on her way ...
... interest in the wildings of the hills , even if their interest was gastronomic . They had moreover a particular feeling – a feeling of awe - for a creature which might in appearance be a hare , but in reality be a Wise Woman on her way ...
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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