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Skeat
[ skeet ]
noun
- Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.
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Example Sentences
Crab (a shell-fish) and crab (a kind of apple) are radically connected, both conveying the idea of scratching or pinching (Skeat).
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Whether or not my theories are right, it is undeniable that the etymologies of Skeat and Murray are very often painfully wrong.
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In a moment of noteworthy frankness Prof. Skeat has admitted that “Scientific etymology is usually clumsy and frequently wrong”.
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Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
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Skeat thinks the word gog is “of imitative origin,” but it is more likely that goggle was originally Gog oeuil or Gog Eye.
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