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... give rise to legends - Bozra - Thongcastle - The Dun Cow - Antwerp - The Mouse Tower - The Amazons of the Baltic- Pilatus - The Picts- The Tatars - Poland - Mussulman - Negropont - Corruptions of Street - Names - America - The Gypsies ...
... give rise to legends - Bozra - Thongcastle - The Dun Cow - Antwerp - The Mouse Tower - The Amazons of the Baltic- Pilatus - The Picts- The Tatars - Poland - Mussulman - Negropont - Corruptions of Street - Names - America - The Gypsies ...
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... give aid to the philo- logist when the aspect of the country remains the same - its visible forms standing in view ... gives us a clue to the relative epochs at which the Celtic , Romance , Sclavonic , and Teutonic families separated ...
... give aid to the philo- logist when the aspect of the country remains the same - its visible forms standing in view ... gives us a clue to the relative epochs at which the Celtic , Romance , Sclavonic , and Teutonic families separated ...
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... chief value of the science of geo- graphical etymology consists in the aid which it is thus able to give us in the determination of obscure ethnological questions . There are many nations which have left no SIGNIFICANCY OF LOCAL NAMES .
... chief value of the science of geo- graphical etymology consists in the aid which it is thus able to give us in the determination of obscure ethnological questions . There are many nations which have left no SIGNIFICANCY OF LOCAL NAMES .
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... give us the dates of the first foundation of England's colonial empire , and of some of the chief successive stages in its progress . The word LONDONDERRY speaks to us of the resettlement of the desolated city of Derry by the London ...
... give us the dates of the first foundation of England's colonial empire , and of some of the chief successive stages in its progress . The word LONDONDERRY speaks to us of the resettlement of the desolated city of Derry by the London ...
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... gives us the date of the exploits of those 1 It will be shewn hereafter that rivers and mountains , as a rule , receive their names from the earlicst races , villages and towns from later colonists . hardy sailors , who cast into the ...
... gives us the date of the exploits of those 1 It will be shewn hereafter that rivers and mountains , as a rule , receive their names from the earlicst races , villages and towns from later colonists . hardy sailors , who cast into the ...
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ancient name Anglo-Saxon Arabic bears the name Brittany Cambridge Cape castle Celtic Celtic names Celts century chapter chief Chronicle church cloth coast College colony conquest contain Cornwall corruption Crown 8vo Cumberland Cymric Danes Danish denote Derbyshire derived Devon district Dorset Edition elementary England English Erse Essex etymology Europe Extra fcap fcap forest France French Gadhelic Gaelic German Greek hill inclosure Indian Ireland island Isle Italian Italy Kent Lancashire land language large number Latin Lincolnshire London means miles modern mountain neighbourhood Norfolk Normandy Norse names North Norwegian Old High German original patronymic Phoenician Picts place called portion prefix probably Professor race river river-names Roman root Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian Schools Sclavonic Scotland seems settlement shews shire Spain Spanish STREET suffix Suffolk Sussex takes its name Teutonic tion town trace TREATISE tribes valley village village-names Wales Welsh Yorkshire
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