Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 76
... taken in ornithological nomenclature by names describing character . These must be considered as fanciful , since they indicate not what a bird is , but what its mentality appears to be when judged by human standards . Let us brazenly ...
... taken in ornithological nomenclature by names describing character . These must be considered as fanciful , since they indicate not what a bird is , but what its mentality appears to be when judged by human standards . Let us brazenly ...
الصفحة 79
... taken if a man walked round and round its perch until it wrung its own neck as it slowly turned its head to watch him . To these depreciatory names cannot directly be added that of loon , which replaces our diver in Canada and the ...
... taken if a man walked round and round its perch until it wrung its own neck as it slowly turned its head to watch him . To these depreciatory names cannot directly be added that of loon , which replaces our diver in Canada and the ...
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... taken after meals ' , the medicine was to be taken , if the patient had been born , say , under Venus , at sunset . But this is to over- simplify the obscurely complicated , as we see from the next lines : ' Wel kowde he fortunen the ...
... taken after meals ' , the medicine was to be taken , if the patient had been born , say , under Venus , at sunset . But this is to over- simplify the obscurely complicated , as we see from the next lines : ' Wel kowde he fortunen 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