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How explain the presence of a Greek word in the vocabulary of our Teutonic forefathers? for that we do not derive it immediately from the Greek, is certain. What contact, direct or indirect, between the languages will account for this? The explanation is curious. Sicut domus Dei Basilica, i.e. Regia a Rege, sic etiam Kyrica, i.e. Dominica a Domino, nuncupatur.
Ab opposito autem praedicti fontis natatorij habetur imago lapidea, rudi et vetusto opere sculpta, deformiterque detrita, quae manus Absalon nuncupatur, cuius ratio lib. 2. Regum monstratur.
Their teacher had a feathered pet "quædam avicula quæ vulgo ob ruborem corpusculi rubisca nuncupatur" a robin-redbreast, in fact, an animal whose good fortune it is never to be mentioned without some kindly reference to his universal popularity, and the decoration which renders him so easily recognised wherever he appears.
"In urle quae famoso nomine Oxnaford nuncupatur," to quote a document of Cnut's. Dipl. With this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.
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