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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... word , and so are the Dutch vigghe , bigghe , pigghe , and our pig . Er proeve werpe [ here experience teems ] sounds a proverb [ in French proverbe ] , of which proverbium is the Latinized form . So that if I am right in this view of ...
... word , and so are the Dutch vigghe , bigghe , pigghe , and our pig . Er proeve werpe [ here experience teems ] sounds a proverb [ in French proverbe ] , of which proverbium is the Latinized form . So that if I am right in this view of ...
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... word can have any relation to her who is reduced to the sad plight implied by the term strumpet ; setting aside the impossibility of finding out any relationship in point of form or sound . HORNE TOOKE tells us , with his accustomed ...
... word can have any relation to her who is reduced to the sad plight implied by the term strumpet ; setting aside the impossibility of finding out any relationship in point of form or sound . HORNE TOOKE tells us , with his accustomed ...
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... word , word , verbum ; whence veurwaerd , condition , agreement , promise ; as the word spoken [ given ] , the promise made . Waerd'er sounds as we pro- nounce water , which is as if spelt waarter . Hol , hollow , empty , where nothing ...
... word , word , verbum ; whence veurwaerd , condition , agreement , promise ; as the word spoken [ given ] , the promise made . Waerd'er sounds as we pro- nounce water , which is as if spelt waarter . Hol , hollow , empty , where nothing ...
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... word than in the same passage of the same author ; nor has the ablest annotator of the Malmantile of Minucci , adduced another in- stance , but adds ciarlatano for its synonym . Montambanco has not , to me , the air of a genuine Italian ...
... word than in the same passage of the same author ; nor has the ablest annotator of the Malmantile of Minucci , adduced another in- stance , but adds ciarlatano for its synonym . Montambanco has not , to me , the air of a genuine Italian ...
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... word for him- self , " in the sense of , he wanted spirit to speak . Loos and less are the same word , and mean want- ing . Moed represents mouth or utterance . " But all to litill , welaway the while ! Lastith such joie , ithonkid be ...
... word for him- self , " in the sense of , he wanted spirit to speak . Loos and less are the same word , and mean want- ing . Moed represents mouth or utterance . " But all to litill , welaway the while ! Lastith such joie , ithonkid be ...
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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 meê metathesis mind nature never original form pain participle past participle present past participle phrase play potential mood præterite 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