An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Том 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Company, 1837 |
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... Anglo - Saxon delusion , brings faner , affanno , vanus , èvanouir , fange [ mud ] , faint , and fen , all out of the verb fynigean , to corrupt , spoil , pass away , turn mouldy [ sour ] , and says , that faint is as the past ...
... Anglo - Saxon delusion , brings faner , affanno , vanus , èvanouir , fange [ mud ] , faint , and fen , all out of the verb fynigean , to corrupt , spoil , pass away , turn mouldy [ sour ] , and says , that faint is as the past ...
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... Anglo - Saxon scrud ; -very likely , but what's scrud ? Horne Tooke tells us the same thing , adding to this tit - for - tat sort of ety- mology , this verdad de Perogrullo , a groundless absurdity , by asserting the shrouds [ shrowds ] ...
... Anglo - Saxon scrud ; -very likely , but what's scrud ? Horne Tooke tells us the same thing , adding to this tit - for - tat sort of ety- mology , this verdad de Perogrullo , a groundless absurdity , by asserting the shrouds [ shrowds ] ...
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... Anglo - Saxon idel , which is no more than saying idle is idle . HORNE TOOKE sagaciously informs us , he is persuaded the word ( as well as to ail , ) is grounded in the Anglo- Saxon adlian , adilian , grotare , exaninire , corrum- pere ...
... Anglo - Saxon idel , which is no more than saying idle is idle . HORNE TOOKE sagaciously informs us , he is persuaded the word ( as well as to ail , ) is grounded in the Anglo- Saxon adlian , adilian , grotare , exaninire , corrum- pere ...
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... Anglo - Saxon agettan [ to dedicate , to institute , to consecrate ] , from which he supposes the form of toasett ; but why it should mean toast , or how it came into that shape , he has left us to find out if we can . 2 That is a stone ...
... Anglo - Saxon agettan [ to dedicate , to institute , to consecrate ] , from which he supposes the form of toasett ; but why it should mean toast , or how it came into that shape , he has left us to find out if we can . 2 That is a stone ...
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... Anglo- Saxon stigan [ ascendere ] , which is the Dutch stei- gen , to mount , and thinks it should be spelt stawk ; but how is stalk connected either in sound or sense with that verb ? And why should it be written stawk ? is it to be ...
... Anglo- Saxon stigan [ ascendere ] , which is the Dutch stei- gen , to mount , and thinks it should be spelt stawk ; but how is stalk connected either in sound or sense with that verb ? And why should it be written stawk ? is it to be ...
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analogous Anglo-Saxon applied aspirate belongs bend Bije BILDERDIJK bring called CHAUCER chop contracted participle present derives dialect dije dijen direction of sense Doogh Dutch ellipsis etymology evidently explained expression favour fellow female fetch fool formerly spelt French German grete grounded groundedly hand head heart heet heeten Hence herte hold hoon HORNE TOOKE horse HUDIBRAS IBID IDEM ijse implying import intermutating Italian JOHNSON says JOSEPH SCALIGER keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite pronounce prosopopoeia quoth regard Saxon schie SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb whence Wijse word wote
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