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# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Masche

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​ Masche, f., ‘mesh, stitch,’ from MidHG. mā̆sche, OHG. and OLG. mā̆sca, f., ‘mesh, snare’; comp. AS. mœ̂sce, E. mesh, OIc. mǫskve, m.; Goth. *mêsqa, *masqa, are by chance not recorded. According to the permutation of consonants, the latter is based on pre-Teut. mêzga- (mosga-); comp. Lith. mázgas, ‘threads interlaced, knot,’ which is connected with a vb. mezgù (mègsti), ‘to tie knots, knit (nets).’ Thus Masche may be traced to a Teut. root mêsg (pre-Teut. and Aryan mē̆zg), ‘to plait.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Maske

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​ Maske, f., ‘mask, disguise, masquerader,’ from Fr. masque; the equiv. Suab. and Bav. maskere is more closely connected with Ital. maschera as well as Span. mascara, ‘division’; comp. also Du. and E. masker. Perhaps the origin of the entire class is to be sought for in Rom.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Masse

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​ Masse, f., ‘mass, bulk, heap,’ from MidHG. masse, f., ‘misshapen stuff, mass,’ espec. ‘lumps of metal.’ Borrowed in the ​late OHG. period (by Notker), as massa, f., from Lat. massa.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Matte

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​ Matte (1.), f. (an Alem. word unknown to Suab. and Bav.), from the equiv. MidHG. mate, matte, f., ‘mead, meadow’; OHG. *matta, f., is wanting (but OHG. mato-scrëch, ‘grasshopper,’ is preserved). Goth. *maþwa, *mêdwa, is not recorded; comp. E. meadow, mead, from AS. mœ̂d (gen. mœ̂dwe), ‘meadow,’ MidLG. mâde, OLG. mâtha, mada, OFris. mêth. They seem to be based on a Teut. root mâþ, med, which is connected with Lat. mêto, ‘to ​mow, reap,’ and which has a shorter form, mê, in ModHG. mähen.
Matte (2.), f., ‘mat,’ from MidHG. matte (late MidHG. also matze), OHG. matta, f., ‘covering woven of straw, rushes, &c., mat’; Du. mat, AS. meatte, f., E. mat. The correspondence of the HG. and LG.-Eng. dental indicates that the word was borrowed, and as a fact it was introduced during the OHG. period. It is based on Lat. matta, ‘mat made of rushes.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Marter

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​ Marter, f., ‘torture, rack,’ from MidHG. marter, martere, f., orig. ‘martyrdom,’ espec. ‘the Passion,’ then ‘torture, torment, persecution, rack,’ OHG. martira, martara, f. (also with l, OHG. martela, MidHG. martel); formed from Gr. and Lat. martyrium. The derivative Märtyrer is from MidHG. męrterer, marterer, OHG. martirâri, ‘martyr,’ for which the forms martir, martyr, equiv. to Lat.-Gr. martyr, ‘martyr for the truth of Christianity,’ rarely occur. The Eccles. Lat. meaning ‘torture,’ which is foreign to Gr., is found also in the Rom. cognates of martyrium. Comp. Ital. martirio, Fr. martyre.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Mast

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​ Mast (1.), m. (probably quite unknown to Suab. and Bav.), ‘mast,’ from MidHG. and OHG. mast, m., ‘pole, flagstaff, spear-shaft,’ espec. ‘ship's mast, tree fit for a mast’; comp. LG. and Du. mast, AS. mœst, m. E. mast, OIc. mastr, ‘mast.’ Goth. *masta-, m., ‘mast, pole,’ is wanting. According to the permutation of consonants, the latter is based on pre-Teut. mazdo- (comp. Ast, Gerste, and Nest); did Lat. mâlus for *mâdus originate in this? (also Ir. matan, ‘club,’ maite, ‘stick’?). Similarly Fisch (piscis) and Meer (mare) are primit. allied.
Mast (2), ‘mast (for fattening),’ from MidHG. and MidLG. mast, m., f., and n., ‘food, acorns, fattening,’ OHG. mast; comp. AS. mœst, f., E. mast. Goth. *masta is derived, according to the permutation of consonants, from a primit. form mazdo-, to which Sans. mêdas, n., ‘fat,’ mêdáy, ‘to fatten,’ also points. The ModHG. verbal noun mästen comes from MidHG. and OHG. męsten; Du. mesten, AS. mœstan, ‘to fatten’; to this is allied the ModHG. adj. partic. mast, OHG. mast, AS. gemœst, ‘fat, fattened.’ In MidHG. gemast, gemęstet.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nachtigall

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​ Nachtigall, f., ‘nightingale,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nahtegal, OHG. nahte-gala, f.; a term common to the West Teut. languages for ‘luscinia,’ prop. ‘singer in the ​night’ (allied to OTeut. galan, ‘to sing’); OSax. nahtigala, Du. nachtegaal, AS. nihtegale, E. nightingale.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Naht

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​ Naht, f., ‘seam,’ from the equiv. MidHG. and OHG. nât, f.; corresponding to Du. naad. Allied to nähen, root né (Goth. *néþs), and to OHG. nâtâri, nâteri, MidHG. nâtœre, m., ‘sewer, tailor,’ of which the fem. form is MidHG. nâtœrîn, ModHG. Nähterin. See Nadel and nähen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Narbe

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​ Narbe, f. (apparently hardly known in UpG.), ‘scar,’ from the equiv. MidHG. narwe, late OHG. narwa, f., lit. ‘narrowness, contraction’; a fem. subst. from the adj. narwa- (OSax. naru, AS. nearu, E. narrow), ‘narrow’ (comp. Nehrung). Comp. in the non-Teut. languages, Lith. nèr-ti, ‘to thread (a needle),’ narvà, ‘cell of the queen-bee.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nacht

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​ Nacht, f., ‘night,’ from the equiv. OHG. and MidHG. naht, f.; corresponding to Goth. nahts, OIc. nótt, AS. neaht, niht, E. night, Du. nacht, OSax. naht, f.; a common OTeut. naht-, f., from common Aryan nokt-, ‘night.’ Comp. Lat. nox (stem nocti-), Gr. νύξ (νυκτ-), Sans. nákta-, naktan-, n., nákti-, f., Lith. naktìs, OSlov. noštĭ. While the word ‘night’ is common to all the Aryan languages, they differ considerably in the terms for ‘day’; this is due to the fact that time in the primit. Aryan period was counted by nights and not by days; relics of this method are seen in Fastnacht, ‘Shrove Tuesday,’ Weihnachten, ‘Christmas,’ and E. fortnight, sennight (comp. Ostern and Osten). Only a few main divisions of time, such as Monat and Jahr, are widely diffused.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nadel

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​ Nadel, f., ‘needle,’ from the equiv. MidHG. nâdel, OHG. nâdal, nâdala, f.; corresponding to Goth. nêþla, OIc. nál, AS. nœ̂dl, f., E. needle, Du. naald, OSax. nâdla. A common Teut. form for ‘needle,’ with the suffix þlô- (tlâ-), from the root nê (Radel, lit. ‘an instrument for sewing), appearing in ModHG. nähen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nagel

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​ Nagel, m., from the equiv. MidHG. nagel, OHG. nagal, f., ‘nail’; corresponding to OSax. nagal, Du. nagel, AS. nœgel, E. nail, OIc. nagl, ‘nail’; Goth. *nagls may be deduced from the recorded vb. nagljan, ‘to nail.’ The West Teut. words have mostly the double sense ‘nail of the finger or toe’ and ‘wooden, iron nail.’ The former meaning, in accordance with the corresponding words in the other Aryan languages, is the original one (in OIc. there is a distinction between nagl, ‘finger-nail,’ and nagle, ‘wooden, iron nail’). Teut. naglo- originated in Aryan noghlo-, or rather nokhló-; comp. OInd. nakhá, m. and n., ‘finger or toe nail, claw of birds,’ Gr. ὀνυχ- (nom. ὄνυξ), ‘claw, talon, hoof,’ then also ‘hook,’ Lat. unguis, ‘claw, talon,’ OSlov. nogŭtĭ, ‘nail, claw’ (from OSlov. nogà, f., ‘foot’); Lith. nágas, ‘finger-nail,’ nagà, ‘horse's hoof.’ ‘The root nokh, nogh, is unknown; it must not be sought for in nagen, the root of which was rather pre-Teut. ghnagh. See Nelke.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Napf

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​ Napf, m., ‘bowl, basin,’ from MidHG. napf, OHG. napf, for an earlier hnapf, m., ‘goblet, dish’; corresponding to MidLG. and Du. nap, ‘bowl,’ AS. hnœp (gen. hnœppes), ‘goblet.’ Of obscure origin. The Teut. cognates passed into Rom.; comp. Ital. nappo, Fr. hanap, ‘goblet.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Nacken

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​ Nacken, m., ‘nape,’ from MidHG. nacke, nac (gen. -ckes), m., ‘hind part of the head, nape,’ OHG. nac hnac (cch), m.; comp. Du. nek, AS. hnëcca, m., ‘neck, nape,’ E. neck, OIc. hnakke, m., ‘hind part of the head’ (Goth. *hnakka, *hnikka, is wanting). In Suab. and Franc. Anfe or Genick is mostly used, and in Bav. Genäck (the Bav. meaning of nacken, ‘bone,’ is remarkable). The graded form with ë (AS. hnëcca) parallel to a-o is preserved by ModHG. in Genick; E. nape (AS. hnapa?) seems to be a corresponding form with a medial labial. In the non-Teut. languages the word may be cognate with OIr. cnocc, OBret. cnoch, ‘hill, elevation’ (stem cnocco-).
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Narde

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​ Narde, f. ‘nard, spikenard,’ from the equiv. MidHG. narde, OHG. narda, f.; formed from Gr. and Lat. νάρδος, nardus, introduced also through the translation of the Bible into other languages.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Name

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​ Name, m., ‘name,’ from the equiv. MidHG. name, OHG. namo, m. This word, to which there are corresponding terms in all the Teut. and Aryan languages, is of the greatest antiquity, and is most widely diffused. Comp. OSax. namo, Du. naam, AS. nǫma, nama, m., E. name; Goth. namô, n. OIc. nafn, n. (for namn), ‘name’; equiv. to the corresponding Sans. nãman-, Gr. ὄ-νουα, Lat. nômen, OSlov. imę, n. (from *ĭn-men, *n-men), Pruss. emmens, OIr. ainm. The Aryan primit. form may have been nō̆men-. Aryan nômen is indicated by MidHG. bennomen and Du. noemen, ‘to name,’ yet the OSlov. and OIr. words present some phonetic difficulties. Formerly Gr. ὄνομα and Lat. nômen were derived from the root γνω-, gnô-, ‘to recognise’ comp. E. to know, see kennen), so that Aryan nō̆men would represent gnômen, and have orig. signified ‘means of recognition’; this view wants phonetic confirmation. Others derive Name from the root nem in nehmen, so that the word would mean ‘that which is accepted,’ which is likewise improbable; see further nennen and nämlich.
# An Attempt Towards An International Language/Vocabulary

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VOCABULARY.
English–International.
International-English Vocabulary.
VORT-AR-O POR ANGL-O-J.
All that is written in the International tongue can be understood by this Vocabulary. If several words together express one idea they must be written in one, but disjoined from each other by a hyphen; for instance, frat-in-o, being one idea, is composed of three words, which must be separately looked for in the Vocabulary.
English-International Vocabulary.
COMPILED BY
Henry Phillips, Jr.
# An Attempt at the Manner of Waller

Did not thy reason and thy sense, With most persuasive eloquence, Convince me that obedience due None may so justly claim as you, By right of beauty you would be Mistress o'er my heart and me.
Then fear not I should e'er rebel, My gentle love! I might as well A forward peevishness put on, And quarrel with the mid-day sun; Or question who gave him a right To be so fiery and so bright.
Nay, this were less absurd and vain Than disobedience to thy reign: His beams are oft too severe; But thou art mild, as thou art fair; First from necessity we own your sway, Then scorn our freedom, and by choice obey.
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# An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge

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AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
BY
A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Imperial College of Science and Technology
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1919
Contents
Preface
PART I. THE TRADITIONS OF SCIENCE
Chapter I: Meaning
Chapter II: The Foundations of Dynamical Physics
Chapter III: Scientific Relativity
Chapter IV: Congruence
PART II. THE DATA OF SCIENCE
Chapter V: The Natural Elements
Chapter VI: Events
Chapter VII: Objects
PART III. THE METHOD OF EXTENSIVE ABSTRACTION
Chapter VIII: Principles of the Method of Extensive Abstraction
Chapter IX: Durations, Moments and Time-Systems
Chapter X: Finite Abstractive Elements
Chapter XI: Points and Straight Lines
Chapter XII: Normality and Congruence
Chapter XIII: Motion
PART IV. THE THEORY OF OBJECTS
Chapter XIV: The Location of Objects
Chapter XV: Material Objects
Chapter XVI: Causal Components
Chapter XVII: Figures
Chapter XVIII: Rhythms
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schöllkraut

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​ Schöllkraut, see Schellkraut.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schöffe

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​ Schöffe, m., ‘assessor, sheriff, juryman,’ from MidHG. schęffe, schępfe, schęffen, m., ‘presiding judge, assessor,’ OHG. scęffin, scaffin, and scęffino, with the same sense; comp. OLG. scępino, ‘assessor,’ Du. schepen, ‘sheriff.’ The term is not found before the time of Charlemagne, who first created the office of assessor; yet the origin and form of the word points to an earlier period, although Goth. *skapja or *skapeins and the corresponding words in OIc. and AS. are wanting. Teut. skapjan (see schaffen) also signified ‘to arrange, decree, decide,’ hence Schöffe, lit. ‘ordainer’?. From Teut. the office and the term applied to it passed into Rom. as MidLat. scabînus; comp. Ital. scabino, Fr. échevin.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schöppe

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​ Schöppe, m., LG. form of Schöffe.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schöps

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​ Schöps, m., ‘wether, mutton, simpleton,’ an East MidG. and Bav. word (unknown to Hess., Rhen., and Francon.), from MidHG. schöpeȥ, schopeȥ, m., ‘wether, mutton’; borrowed in the MidHG. period from Slav. Comp. Czech skopec, ‘wether,’ OSlov. skopĭcĭ, ‘eunuch,’ allied to skopiti, ‘to castrate.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schädel

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​ Schädel, m., ‘skull,’ from MidHG. schědel, m., ‘skull,’ and also ‘a dry measure’; ullied to Du. schedel, m.; unknown to the other OTeut. dials. (in OHG. gëbal, ‘skull,’ like Gr. κεφαλή; see Giebel). Its connection with Scheitel is conceivable.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schäfchen

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​ Schäfchen, in the phrase sein Schäfchen ins Trockene bringen, ‘to feather one's nest,’ is usually explained as a corruption of LG. schepken, ‘barque.’ Perhaps it is, however, an ironical application of a passage in the parable of the Good Shepherd.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schärpe

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​ Schärpe, f., ‘scarf, sash,’ ModHG. only, formed from the equiv. Fr. écharpe, of which the OFr. form escharpe, ‘wallet hung round the neck of a pilgrim,’ is derived, like Ital. sciarpa, ‘scarf, girdle,’ from late OHG. scharpe, ‘pocket.’ Note Bav. Schärpfen.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schöpfer

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​ Schöpfer, m., ‘creator,’ from the equiv. MidHG. schępfœre, OHG. scępfâri, allied to MidHG. scępfen (scaffan), ‘to create.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schönbartspiel

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​ Schönbartspiel n., ‘mummery, carnival play,’ a corruption of MidHG. schëmebart, m. (also schëme-houbet), ‘mask,’ connecting the word with the adj. schön; schëmebart is prop. ‘bearded mask,’ from MidHG. schëme, m., ‘shadow, mask.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schüler

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​ Schüler, m., ‘scholar, pupil,’ MidHG. schuolœre, OLG. scuolâri.
# An Essay Concerning Human Understanding/Book II/Chapter XXIV

1. A collective idea is one idea. Besides these complex ideas of several single substances, as of man, horse, gold, violet, apple, &c., the mind hath also complex collective ideas of substances ; which I so call, because such ideas are made up of many particular substances considered together, as united into one idea, and which so joined are looked on as one ; v.g. the idea of such a collection of men as make an army, though consisting of a great number of distinct substances, is as much one idea as the idea of a man : and the great collective idea of all bodies whatsoever, signified by the name world, is as much one idea as the idea of any the least particle of matter in it ; it sufficing to the unity of any idea, that it be considered as one representation or picture, though made up of ever so many particulars.
2. Made by the power of composing in the mind. These collective ideas of substances the mind makes, by its power of composition, and uniting severally either simple or complex ideas into one, as it does, by the same faculty, make the complex ideas of particular substances, consisting of an aggregate of divers simple ideas, united in one substance. And as the mind, by putting together the repeated ideas of unity, makes the collective mode, or complex idea, of any number, as a score, or a gross, &c., – so, by putting together several particular substances, it makes collective ideas of substances, as a troop, an army, a swarm, a city, a fleet ; each of which every one finds that he represents to his own mind by one idea, in one view ; and so under that notion considers those several things as perfectly one, as one ship, or one atom. Nor is it harder to conceive how an army of ten thousand men should make one idea, than how a man should make one idea ; it being as easy to the mind to unite into one the idea of a great number of men, and consider it as one, as it is to unite into one particular all the distinct ideas that make up the composition of a man, and consider them all together as one.
3. Artificial things that are made up of distinct substances are our collective ideas. Amongst such kind of collective ideas are to be counted most part of artificial things, at least such of them as are made up of distinct substances : and, in truth, if we consider all these collective ideas aright, as army, constellation, universe, as they are united into so many single ideas, they are but the artificial draughts of the mind ; bringing things very remote, and independent on one another, into one view, the better to contemplate and discourse of them, united into one conception, and signified by one name. For there are no things so remote, nor so contrary, which the mind cannot, by this art of composition, bring into one idea ; as is visible in that signified by the name universe.
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/blinzeln

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​ blinzeln, vb., ‘to blink, wink.’ It may be connected with blind; yet comp. also OIc. blunda, ‘to blink,’ and Lith. blandyti, ‘to cast down the eyes.’
# An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/blähen

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​ blähen, vb., ‘to inflate,’ from the equiv. MidHG. blœjen, OHG. blâjan, wk. vb. (the OHG. word also means ‘to blow’); comp. AS. blâwan, E. to blow. The Teut. root blâ (blê) agrees partly with Lat. flare (Aryan root bhlâ); blasen, Blatt, and Blatter are also closely related to it. Blasen especially seems to have arisen from the shorter root, also preserved in Blatter, by adding s to the stem of the present.