How to use Skeat in a sentence
Crab (a shell-fish) and crab (a kind of apple) are radically connected, both conveying the idea of scratching or pinching (Skeat).
Milton's Comus | John MiltonWhether or not my theories are right, it is undeniable that the etymologies of Skeat and Murray are very often painfully wrong.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyIn a moment of noteworthy frankness Prof. Skeat has admitted that “Scientific etymology is usually clumsy and frequently wrong”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleySkeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
Archaic England | Harold BayleySkeat thinks the word gog is “of imitative origin,” but it is more likely that goggle was originally Gog oeuil or Gog Eye.
Archaic England | Harold Bayley
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