The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of EnglishKyle Cathie, 1999 - 269 pages "Throughout history, events great and small have left their mark on the way we speak. Starting from 1066 and working through to the modern-day green movement, with a nod towards the invention of playing cards, the California Gold Rush and the first recorded blizzard along the way, The Chronology of Words and Phrases links hundreds of words and phrases with the historical upheavals and minor social changes which gave them life. A words book for historians and a history book for wordsmiths, it will have pride of place in any book lover's collection." --Book Jacket. |
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Page 83
... derived from pestilens ( stem pestilent- ) , ' unhealthy , infected ' , an adjective from pestis , ' deadly disease ' . The cause of bubonic plague was not known no one imagined that it was carried by rats and spread by their fleas ...
... derived from pestilens ( stem pestilent- ) , ' unhealthy , infected ' , an adjective from pestis , ' deadly disease ' . The cause of bubonic plague was not known no one imagined that it was carried by rats and spread by their fleas ...
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... derived the verb forrer meaning ' to sheathe , to encase ' . In time this developed the sense ' to line ' and in particular ' to line or trim with fur ' . Middle English borrowed the verb as furren in the fourteenth century and then derived ...
... derived the verb forrer meaning ' to sheathe , to encase ' . In time this developed the sense ' to line ' and in particular ' to line or trim with fur ' . Middle English borrowed the verb as furren in the fourteenth century and then derived ...
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... derived from the verb retailler , which meant to cut off , being composed of the intensive prefix re- and the verb tailler , ' to cut , to trim ' . Tailler was derived from the unattested Vulgar Latin verb tāliāre , ' to cut ' , a ...
... derived from the verb retailler , which meant to cut off , being composed of the intensive prefix re- and the verb tailler , ' to cut , to trim ' . Tailler was derived from the unattested Vulgar Latin verb tāliāre , ' to cut ' , a ...
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The Chronology of Words and Phrases: A Thousand Years in the History of English Linda Flavell,Roger Flavell No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
adjective American amongst Anglo-Norman appeared applied became began Bible birds borrowed into English borrowed into Middle borrowed into Old called Canterbury cathedral Church cloth cockfighting coined Crusaders dates denote derived from Latin describe developed DICTIONARY earliest eighteenth century England English borrowed English word etymology Europe European eventually fifteenth figurative FORM OF CURY fourteenth century France Greek hawk hence Henry horse idiom instance invention Italian John king knight known land languages Late Latin later Latin verb London meaning meant medieval Latin Middle Ages Middle Dutch Middle English modern English monks nineteenth century Norman noun Old English Old French originally phrase plague popular real tennis recorded referred Roman second half sense sixteenth century soon Spanish spice sugar taken into Old term thirteenth century Thomas à Becket took translation turn twentieth century unattested prehistoric Germanic unattested Vulgar Latin verb Vulgar Latin William