A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to Other Languages: And Occasional Notices of Local Customs and Popular Superstitions, 第 1 卷E. Charnley, 1846 |
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Æneid ancient antiquity applied ATTERCOP bairn balk Ballad barley BLASH Boucher bread Brockett Bruce cakes called canny castle cattle Celt Chaucer Chaucer,-The coal cock common copies printed corn creil crooked Cumb derived Dialect Durham edition Eneid English etymology etymon expression female formerly frumenty Gael Germ Gloss Glossary ground Hence hill HINNY horse Ital Jamieson keel keelmen Knight's Tale land language Lord Lyndsay's Three Estaitis means milk Miller's Tale Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne noise North Country Words North of England Northern Northumberland old word origin perhaps person Piers Plowman Plowman probably pronounced pronunciation Pure Saxon Saxon says Scotch Scotland Scots Scottish Language sense Shakspeare sheep signifies sort stone Su.-Got Supp supposed Swed Tale term Teut thai ther thing Todd Todd's John Todd's Johnson Tyne verb villenage vulgar Welsh wood Yorkshire
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