Pedigree: Essays on the Etymology of Words from NatureCollins, 1973 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... yellow ; Democritus in yellow , white , and black ; and Aristotle in red , yellow , and green . Mankind long failed to discriminate between green and yellow , as may be gleaned from the names of these colours in the various I - E ...
... yellow ; Democritus in yellow , white , and black ; and Aristotle in red , yellow , and green . Mankind long failed to discriminate between green and yellow , as may be gleaned from the names of these colours in the various I - E ...
الصفحة 155
... Yellow and green , green and yellow , typified the quiet expansion and decay of the plant , the first timid shoots , the full foliage , and the autumnal leafage . With regard to the association of the words for yellow and blue , it is ...
... Yellow and green , green and yellow , typified the quiet expansion and decay of the plant , the first timid shoots , the full foliage , and the autumnal leafage . With regard to the association of the words for yellow and blue , it is ...
الصفحة 156
... yellow one ' is yet another German name for the attractive little bird , which is known by some equivalent name in ... yellow yeorling Tak ' a drap o ' the deil's bluid ilka May morning . ' The ' ignorant insertion ' of the h in ' hammer ...
... yellow one ' is yet another German name for the attractive little bird , which is known by some equivalent name in ... yellow yeorling Tak ' a drap o ' the deil's bluid ilka May morning . ' The ' ignorant insertion ' of the h in ' hammer ...
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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