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Many words used in formal written English are of French derivation.
" Various opinions have been offered as to the derivation of the word "mushroom.
But it seems to be of older usage than such a derivation would imply, and therefore the first explanation seems the more likely to be correct.
Hay contends that the pernicious nick-name "toad-stool" has not the derivation supposed, but that the first part of the word is the Saxon or old English "tod," meaning a bunch, cluster, or bush, the form of many terrestrial fungi suggesting it.
’ The New Historical English Dictionary suggests a derivation from a Portuguese word, ‘ema,’ signifying a crane.
It may arise also from the stomach being overloaded with unconcocted aliment, or from a suppressed or diminished secretion of the salivary liquors in the mouth, which may arise from fever, spasm, or affections of the mind; an increased thirst may likewise take place, from a derivation or determination of the fluids to other parts of the body; of this, dropsy affords an example.
Laboratory voltameters frequently have a resistance of a hundred ohms; it would require a million in derivation to produce the same effect.
Farmers once thought that this plant preyed upon the fertility of their soil, as we see in the derivation of its name, from lupus, a wolf; whereas the lupine contents itself with sterile waste land no one should grudge it - steep gravelly banks, railroad tracks, exposed sunny hills, where even it must often burn out under fierce sunshine did not its root penetrate to surprising depths.
, and in the increased extent of the surface, the plant acquires an increased power of absorbing nourishment from the air, which continues in action far beyond the time when its derivation of carbonic acid through the roots ceases.
Belleek porcelain (frequently pronounced "Bleak" by those who do not know the derivation of the name) is a thin eggshell ware of great lightness and translucency, characterized by a creamy, or sometimes grayish, tint, and usually covered with a delicate pearly or lustrous glaze.
The derivation 227 of one of this bird’s trivial names-Lag-has given rise to much speculation, until Professor Skeat[6] apparently solved the riddle by suggesting that the word-which is an equivalent for late-applied to the bird’s habit of lagging behind to breed in the Fens, after other migratory Geese had departed north.
(37) To say nothing of other objections to this derivation, its author must have fancied that ing and not end was the ending of the Old-English participle.
Owing to the presence of harpoons it was first assumed that this culture was a direct derivation from the Azilian and Magdalenian, though it has been pointed out that the Maglemose harpoons are very different in form from the Azilian, and resemble more nearly some found in eastern Russia.
Latterly the derivation "Comes-stabuli," meaning an Equerry or Master of the Horse, has been generally accepted as correct.
I hold, therefore, that the onus probandi must be thrown the other way: those who dispute the validity of moral or other intuitions on the ground of their derivation must be required to show, not merely that they are the effects of certain causes, but that these causes are of a kind that tend to produce invalid beliefs.
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