etymology

• According to Kluge's dictionary of etymology, their term 'Reihern' comes from the watery regurgitations of large wading birds. —  cafebabel.com
• This view has the advantage of making the rite a simple and practical one, such as would be natural to primitive Latins; and the etymology is apparently unexceptionable, though it will doubtless be criticised, as in fact it has been long ago But in course of time, Prof. Deubner goes on, there came to be engrafted on this simple rite of circumambulation without reference to a deity, a festival of the rustic god Faunus; and now there was added a sacrifice of goats, which seem to have been his favourite victims (kids in Hor. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• But opposed to this etymology is the fact that the word cagot is first found in the for of Béarn not earlier than 1551. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The allusion will not be casual and remote, nor be obtained by undue inflexions and distortions: but, however complicated the name may appear, it will resolve itself easily into the original terms; and, when resolved, the truth of the etymology will be ascertained by the concomitant history. —  A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
• 407.).--The valuable reference to Knox proves the etymology from the Latin. —  Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850

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