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The adobes were the native California habitations. We spoke of them as adobes; although it would probably be as correct, etymologically, to refer to brick houses as bricks.
The name Nazareth is probably etymologically connected with that word, and may have been given to the little village contemptuously to express its insignificance.
Gregor Sarrazin would identify Bjarki with Beowulf. He calls attention to striking similarities between the stories about the two men and attempts to identify the word "Bọðvar," etymologically, with the word "Beowulf."
All that can be called environment is even more important for girls than boys, significant as it is for the latter. The first aim, which should dominate every item, pedagogic method and matter, should be health a momentous word that looms up beside holiness, to which it is etymologically akin.
The story of Bjarki's fight with the winged monster he regarded as acquired from contact with the story of Beowulf's fight with the dragon. He showed that the words "Bọðvar" and "Bēowulf" are not etymologically related, but that "Bọðvar" is the genitive of "bọð," meaning "battle," so that "Bọðvar Bjarki" means "Battle Bjarki."
But it does not follow, etymologically, that a man is right because he is particular. He may be very good or very bad, and yet be only such because he is particularly so. Singularity, eccentricity, speciality, isolation, oddity, and hundreds of other things which might be mentioned, all involve particularity.
Bear thy cross, and thy cross will bear thee, like little Geraldine's cross potent Rod and Rood, Cross and Crutch all the same etymologically and veritably. 'Don't call them a burthen, pray! said Felix, with a sense both of deprecation and of being unable to turn to the point. 'My boy, I am afraid I was thinking more of myself than of you.
The word means "a churning-stick," and it appears also, with a prefixed preposition, in the name of the fire-drill, pramantha. Now Kuhn has proved that this name, pramantha, is etymologically identical with Prometheus, the name of the beneficent Titan, who stole fire from heaven and bestowed it upon mankind as the richest of boons.
In "Biterolf" Liudeger rules over both Saxons and Danes, and Liudegast is his brother. "Fey". This Scotch and older English word has been chosen to translate the M.H.G. "veige", 'fated', 'doomed', as it is etymologically the same word. The ancient Germans were fatalists and believed only those would die in battle whom fate had so predestined.
The Marcomani cannot be demonstrated as a distinct people before Marbod; it is very possible that the word up to that point indicates nothing but what it etymologically signifies the land, or frontier, guard. IV. V. The Tribes at the Sources of the Rhine and Along the Danube IV. V. The Tribes at the Sources of the Rhine and Along the Danube IV. V. Teutones in the Province of Gaul
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