Words and Places: Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography |
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ancient name Anglo-Saxon Arabic bears the name Buttmann called Cape Celtic Celtic names Celts century Cham coast colony conquest Cornwall corruption Cymric Danes Danish denote derived Deut Deutschen Devon Diefenbach Diez district Domesday Dorset England English English Commonwealth Essex Etym Etymol etymology Europe forest Förstemann France French Gadhelic Gaelic German Gesch Gough's Camden Greek Grimm hill Hist History Iceland Indo-Europ island Isle Italy Kemble Kent Kings Lancashire land language Latham Latin Lincolnshire Lond London Lorr Max Müller means Mone mountain Movers Müller Norfolk Normandy Norse names Northmen Norwegian Orig originally Ortsnamen Palgrave Patronymics Philolog Phoenician Pictet Picts Pott probably race river Roman Romance languages Rome root Sanskrit Saxon Scandinavian Sclavonic Scotland settlement Spain Spanish Street suffix Suffolk supra Sussex takes its name Teutonic town tribes valley village Wales Welsh word Wörterb Wörterbuch Yorkshire Zeuss
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Page 24 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could...
Page 21 - Reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a souldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testifie he was. The same Monday night, about twelve of the clocke, or not long after, the Frigat being ahead of us in the Golden Hinde, suddenly her lights were out, whereof as it were in a moment we lost the sight, and withall our watch cryed, the Generall was cast away, which was too true. For in that moment, the Frigat was devoured and swallowed up of the Sea.
Page 21 - Frigate was near cast away, oppressed by waves yet at that time recovered; and giving forth signs of joy, the General sitting abaft with a book in his hand, cried out to us in the Hind (so oft as we did approach within hearing), 'We are as near to heaven by sea as by land' — reiterating the same speech, well beseeming a soldier, resolute in Jesus Christ, as I can testify he was.
Page xxix - ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. Lectures Addressed (originally) to the Pupils at the Diocesan Training School, Winchester.
Page 91 - And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter: which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
Page 25 - The Honour of a London Prentice, being an account of his matchless manhood and brave adventures done in Turkey, and by what means he married the king's daughter...
Page 430 - Two noble Earls, whom if I quote, Some folks might call me Sinner ; The one invented half a coat ; The other half a dinner.
Page 245 - To establish the point that the Picts, or the nation, whatever was its name, that held central Scotland, was Cymric, not Gaelic, we may refer to the distinction already mentioned between Ben and Pen.
Page 195 - Throughout the whole of England there is hardly a river-name which is not Celtic. By a reference to the map prefixed to this volume, it will be seen that those districts of our island which are dotted thickly with Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian village-names are traversed everywhere by red lines, which represent the rivers, whose names are now almost the solo evidence that survives of a once universal Celtic occupation of the land.
Page 243 - ... to show that long before the time of Henry II., Hereford was not reckoned to be in Wales. Still the general conclusions of our author with regard to England stand uncontested. He says: 'Over the whole land almost every river-name is Celtic, most of the Shire-names contain Celtic roots, and a fair sprinkling of names of hills, valleys, and fortresses, bears witness that the Celt was the aboriginal possessor of the soil ' (p. 256). It appears that the Cymry held the lowlands of Scotland as far...