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Перевод: etymology

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Тезаурус:

1. On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how's your father and the etymology of knackered, Bob's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y .
2. "Fuck" has been around for at least 500 years (it was listed synonymously with "sard", "swive" and "occupy" in John Florio's Worlde of Words in 1598), but the supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary protests that its etymology is unknown.
3. No doubt many users of the word "introspection" are unaware of its Latin etymology (from introspicio "look within'), yet they are surely influenced by its affinities with "inspect", "spectator", "spectacle"; otherwise, why do they claim to introspect entities as not physical but mental because not extended in space, treating introspection as analogous with sight, which reveals spatial extension, rather than with hearing, smell or taste, which just as much as consciousness of love or anger, hope or fear, exhibit temporal change without spatial extension?
4. The guiding principles then of etymology and precedent would not be acceptable today.
5. Systematic investigation of the authenticity of the names and of their etymology has not been attempted, although the orthography has been brought up-to-date.
6. Popular etymology has claimed that "Bredcroft" was the place where the town's medieval bakers kept their ovens and Burton claims there was a court house there, but there is no evidence.
7. As for boffin, although the Oxford English Dictionary states that its etymology is unknown, I have conjectured that this same purist Huxley may inadvertently have been responsible for it.
8. Callahan had advised me to devote myself to one simple and perhaps impossible mission: to discover the etymology of the word cowabunga.
9. I admit that there is something absurd in the notion of machines built around the simple rigour of Boolean logic having to cope with words whose spelling in some cases derives from Dr Sam Johnson's incorrect etymology.
10. The falling of Burbank, taking us down the moral ladder, and the "saggy bending of the knees" of Bleistein, taking us down the evolutionary ladder, lead to the declining "smoky candle end of time" which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over "Time's ruins", the etymology of "ruins" being important.
11. The siting of the Roman Ermine Street just to the west of Stamford prompted Francis Peck in 1727 to suggest that Stamford was formerly the important Roman town of Durobrivae , originally called Doorebriff He supported the claim with some incoherent etymology that related the name to the Saxon word "Welland", irrespective of the fact that the gentle Welland does not rage or boil (according to Ekwall's English River Names , Welland means "good stream").
12. I am presumably using words literally when the metaphor is a matter only of etymology ("insight"), and feel still more confident of it when the etymology belongs to the Latin ancestor of the word ("intuition", from intueor "gaze at").