A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English LanguageClarendon Press, 1882 - 616 páginas |
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allied to A. S. Allied to Icel Allied to Skt Arab Aryan base beat belonging bend bird blow borrowed Bret called Celtic origin cloth cognate Coined confused Corn corruption Cotgrave crude form derived dial Diez dimin double dimin F. L. Gk F.-Teut facere Florio formed with suffix Formerly French frequent Gael Goth hence Hexham horse Icel imitative Irish Irish and Gael Ital Ital.-L kind Lith Lithuan Littré Low G Low L Low Latin Lowl means neut Norw Norweg orig Perhaps allied Pers piece Port prefix prep Prob prov root round Russ Scand sense shew shine ship short sound Span spelling spelt stem of pres strike strong verb suffix super Swed Teut tree turn twist vowel-change weak verb weakened form whence word
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Página 467 - prest' in the extract from North in the preceding note. — SKEAT (Concise Etymol. Diet.) : ' Press ' is a corruption of the old word prest, ready ; whence prest-money, ready money advanced to a man hired for service, earnest money ; also imprest, a verb (now impress), to give a man earnest money. When it became common to use compulsion to force men into service, it was confused with the verb to press. Prest money was money lent, derived from Old French prester (French prefer) to lend, advance money....
Página 325 - one who bore a palm-branch in memory of having been to the Holy Land " (Skeat). 191 — 92. Milton is partial to this cumbrous form of indirect question; among not infrequent instances in SA cf. line 1380: "How thou wilt here come off surmounts my reach.