HADLOWE: AN UNRECORDED MIDDLE ENGLISH HARE WORD?
This article attempts to define the usage of the word "hadlowe." It is conceivable that hadlowe refers to some soft part of an animal, but the most natural interpretation is that it is the name of a kind of hare. It seems not to be recorded in the dictionaries, nor is it found in the thirteenth-cent...
| Publicado en: | Notes & Queries Vol. 39; no. 1; p. 26 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar1992
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| Sumario: | This article attempts to define the usage of the word "hadlowe." It is conceivable that hadlowe refers to some soft part of an animal, but the most natural interpretation is that it is the name of a kind of hare. It seems not to be recorded in the dictionaries, nor is it found in the thirteenth-century Middle English poem on the names of a hare. No obvious etymology suggests itself. |
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