http://www.richlyevocative.com Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:16:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.richlyevocative.com/2009/10/english-ology-words/ http://www.richlyevocative.com/2009/10/english-ology-words/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:13 +0000 Brent http://www.richlyevocative.com/?p=49 English Ology Words

• cliology | the mathematical study of history

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• badger | Old English *bagga ‘badger’
• brock
• brown | Old English *brun ‘pig’
• buck
• bull | Old English *bula ‘bull’
• ean | Old English *ean ‘lamb’
• deer
• dog
• ever
• farrow
• gitten | Old English*gæten ‘kid’
• galt | Old English *galt ‘pig, boar’ cf. gilt
• gray | Old Englsih *græg ‘badger’
• hart
• hind
• hirse | Old English *hyrse ‘mare’
• hogget
• hound
• ight | Old Englsih iht
• lamb
• mare
• pad | Old English *padde ‘toad]
• paddock| Old English *padduc ‘frog’
• pig | Old English *pigga ‘young pig’
• pocca | Old English *pohha/*pocca ‘fallow deer’
• poccel | Old English *pohhel/*poccel ‘fallow deer fawn’
• stead | Old English *stedda ‘horse’
• stud
• tack | Old English *tacca and *tagga ‘teg, young sheep’
• tige | Old Englsih *tige ‘goat’
• todd | Old English *todd ‘fox’
• warrow | Old English *wearg ‘wolf ’
• wether | Old English*wiðer ‘ram, wether’

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• corncrake | Crex crex
• culver
• daw | Corvus monedula
• duck
• gannet | Sula bassana
• grackle
• mouser AKA Mousehawk AKA Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Old English musere, mushafoc
• night raven AKA Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax
• redmouth AKA Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus
• rook | Corvus frugilegus
• shelver AKA Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus
• shrab AKA Shag | Phalacrocorax aristotelis
• spearhawk AKA Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus
• stork AKA White Stork | Ciconia ciconia
• swan AKA Mute Swan | Cygnus olor
• throstle | Turdus philomelos
• thrush
• tish AKA Buzzard | Buteo buteo | Old English tysca

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• canyon
• chistle ‘gravel’  | Old English ceosol ‘gravel’
• clough ‘ravine’
• dale
• dell
• firien ‘mountain’ | Old English firgen ‘mountain’
• forest
• hill
• howe
• lea ‘open field, meadow’
• leap
• mount
• mountain
• peak
• pinnacle
• ravine
• shaw ‘thicket, copse’
• swale ‘low place, shady place”
• swidden ‘burned clearing’
• tell
• wood

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