Pedigree: The Origins of Words from Nature1974 - 320 من الصفحات |
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... Sense has changed all the way from feelings ( L. sentire , to feel ) through the senses to a significance so different as to be almost opposed , namely ' good judgment ' . The force in imagination , the highest faculty of man , was ...
... Sense has changed all the way from feelings ( L. sentire , to feel ) through the senses to a significance so different as to be almost opposed , namely ' good judgment ' . The force in imagination , the highest faculty of man , was ...
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... sense embodied in idio- : idios , ' personal , private , separate ' ; ta idia , ' private property ' . An idiōtēs is a private person ' , not a stratiōtēs , a ' private ' soldier , or public servant . We use the word rightly in idiom ...
... sense embodied in idio- : idios , ' personal , private , separate ' ; ta idia , ' private property ' . An idiōtēs is a private person ' , not a stratiōtēs , a ' private ' soldier , or public servant . We use the word rightly in idiom ...
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... sense of the word that is now obsolescent . It was an O.E. and M.E. use . Chaucer has the phrase , ' my right dochter ' - ' my right daughter , treasure of my heart ' . Justly entitled to the name ' gives the sense ; and in this sense ...
... sense of the word that is now obsolescent . It was an O.E. and M.E. use . Chaucer has the phrase , ' my right dochter ' - ' my right daughter , treasure of my heart ' . Justly entitled to the name ' gives the sense ; and in this sense ...
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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