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ancient animal apparently from G batuo beat bird blow called carriage cask Celts Chald cloth cognate colour confounded contracted corn corresponding corresponding with L corrupted cover denoted dialects dress drone bee etymons fellow female fire fish foot formerly French frequentative fruit Gaul Gothic Goths grain Greek hair hawk head heraldry herb Hind horse inclose inclosure instrument intermutation Irish iron kind land Latin liquor male meaning metal mouth names of places noise noun Odin originally perhaps Persian person Picts piece plant Port prefixed prep pret produced pron properly resembling root rope round Saxon Sclav Scot scrin seems sense shell ship shoot signified soldiers sound species stone supposed Swed Tartar termination Teutonic thing tion tree Turk v. a. to cut verb vessel wamb Welsh whence wild wind woman wood word worn young