Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... mediaeval Medicine was the necessity of keeping in mind the possible influence of some god of Healing such as the Greek Paion , whose flower , the pæony , was the emblem of health . There were many other plants beside the goutweed with ...
... mediaeval Medicine was the necessity of keeping in mind the possible influence of some god of Healing such as the Greek Paion , whose flower , the pæony , was the emblem of health . There were many other plants beside the goutweed with ...
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... mediaeval pharmacopœia . Sir Walter Raleigh wrote in 1595 of ' a kinde of green stones which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas , and we use for spleene stones ' . What stones did he mean ? The mid- 18th century Chambers's Dictionary ...
... mediaeval pharmacopœia . Sir Walter Raleigh wrote in 1595 of ' a kinde of green stones which the Spaniards call Piedras Hijadas , and we use for spleene stones ' . What stones did he mean ? The mid- 18th century Chambers's Dictionary ...
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... mediaeval about it all , because the age of it must be thought of in thousands , not hundreds , of years . Preserved here are the customs of wine - harvests of ancient Europe . At last I understood ' oscillate ' ! Take Latin ōs , the ...
... mediaeval about it all , because the age of it must be thought of in thousands , not hundreds , of years . Preserved here are the customs of wine - harvests of ancient Europe . At last I understood ' oscillate ' ! Take Latin ōs , the ...
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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