An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, 1840 - English language |
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... German bruck , and our bridge are one word ; and so are the Dutch rug , the German rucken , and our ridge in the ground . Tolken , to explain , to interpret , to make understood by speaking , and the root of our to talk . We had once a ...
... German bruck , and our bridge are one word ; and so are the Dutch rug , the German rucken , and our ridge in the ground . Tolken , to explain , to interpret , to make understood by speaking , and the root of our to talk . We had once a ...
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... German brauch , habit , custom , usage , consuetudo . A brogue may be acquired by a long residence in a country where the language differs from our native one . The 9 and k intermutate as has been before observed in more than one ...
... German brauch , habit , custom , usage , consuetudo . A brogue may be acquired by a long residence in a country where the language differs from our native one . The 9 and k intermutate as has been before observed in more than one ...
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... German term for the same rela- tionship is stief - vader [ vater ] ; q . e . harsh [ severe , savage , rigid , ] father ; and is formed in a nearly- like direction of sense . Our own father - in - law , has not a much more attractive ...
... German term for the same rela- tionship is stief - vader [ vater ] ; q . e . harsh [ severe , savage , rigid , ] father ; and is formed in a nearly- like direction of sense . Our own father - in - law , has not a much more attractive ...
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... German of hoch , in French of haut , formerly hault ; and quere if the Italian alto , and the Latin altus , are not also the above word ? Our hill , and the Dutch heuvel , hovel , in the same sense , are clearly of this stock ; so are ...
... German of hoch , in French of haut , formerly hault ; and quere if the Italian alto , and the Latin altus , are not also the above word ? Our hill , and the Dutch heuvel , hovel , in the same sense , are clearly of this stock ; so are ...
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... the known sense of the word , is evidently from the Dutch seghel , seyl , sail [ formerly seyll ] . And seyl , zeil , is properly gezeil or gezeul , from zeulen , a zeilen , to draw , whence the German zeil POPULAR PHRASES . 39.
... the known sense of the word , is evidently from the Dutch seghel , seyl , sail [ formerly seyll ] . And seyl , zeil , is properly gezeil or gezeul , from zeulen , a zeilen , to draw , whence the German zeil POPULAR PHRASES . 39.
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analogous Anglo-Saxon 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 gode 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 keye labour language Latin literal form maie meaning mede meź metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood pręterite pronounce prosopopoeia question quoth regard Saxon schie semid SHAKSPEARE shrewd sounds Spanish spelt by CHAUCER suspect taele tell term thema ther thing thou TITMOUSE travesty trope turn utter verb watir whence Wijse word wote