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to be a formation imitative of the sound made by the instrument.
4. adj. of many kinds, many and various. Before 1200 monifold, in Body
and Soul; later manifold, (about 1300, in Layamon’s Chronicle of
Britain); developed from Old English monigfald (Anglian form, before
830, in the Vespasian Psalter); earlier manigfeald (West Saxon form,
about 750 in Cynewulf’s Christ II; manig MANY + -feald -FOLD).
5. adj. Old English open not closed down, raised up, open (about 725, in
Beowulf); cognate with Old Frisian epen, open open, Old Saxon opan,
Middle Dutch ōpen (modern Dutch open), Old High German offan
(modern German offen), and Old Icelandic opinn (Swedish öppen,
Norwegian åpen, Danish åben); not recorded in Gothic; from Proto-
Germanic upana-/upina-, and related to up.
6. n. 1548, composition in verse, piece of poetry; replacing earlier poesy
and borrowed from Middle French poème, learned borrowing from
Latin poēma verse, poetry, from Greek póēma, early variant of
poíēma thing made or created, fiction, poetical work, from poeîn,
poieîn to make or compose.
7. n. About 1300 lasce, later las, lasse (about 1390); possibly borrowed
from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Icelandic lọskr idle, weak,
Old Swedish løsk kona unmarried woman, literally, one without a fixed
dwelling); cognate West Frisian lask light, thin, and dialectal German
lasch slack or weak. – lassie n. 1725, formed from English lass + -ie.
8. n. long rope with a running noose at one end; lariat. 1819, American
English; borrowed from Spanish lazo, from Latin laqueum, accusative
of laqueus noose, snare.
9. adj. About 1280 odde left over, single, unique; borrowed from a
Scandinavian source (compare Old Icelandic oddi third or odd
number; earlier, triangle, angle, point of land, found also in the
genitive form odda in such compounds as oddatala odd number, and
oddamadhr third or odd man, the notion deriving from the three sides
of a triangle). Old Icelandic oddi is related to oddr point of a weapon,
and cognate with Old High German ort angle, point (modern German
Ort place), Middle Dutch ort point, edge (modern Dutch oord place),
Old Saxon and Old Frisian ord point or tip (also found in Old English
ord, which did not survive), from Proto-Germanic uzdaz pointed
upwards, from Indo-European ud-dh-o-s … The sense of peculiar or
strange is first recorded in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
(1588).
10. n. bundle. Probably before 1200 packe, in Ancrene Riwle, and 1228
pak; earlier, in a surname Pakbyndere (1191); possibly borrowed from
Middle Dutch pac, pack bundle, Middle Low German pak, or early
Middle Flemish pac (compare also Old Icelandic pakki), of unknown
origin.
(Chambers Dictionary of Etymology. New York, Chambers, 2000)
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