Thus the Arabic etymologists whom I mentioned in a former work[540] may be right in a certain sense in tracing back most of the derivations of the root safar to this sense.
But, probably, enough has been said to show that the information which would alone warrant such table of derivations is not yet forthcoming, and, perhaps, never will be.
If this be so, the suggested derivations from the adjective light, and from the substantive light, fall to the ground: but MR.
Not many derivationsare given; but one of them is well known.
But to a scholar brought up on Huguitio derivations were of the first importance; and to leave them out would have been only another mark of inferiority.
It is noticeable that Papias has some knowledge of Greek, for derivations in Greek letters occur, e.
Scrieck's foundation for all his extravagant topographical derivationswas the passage from Plato.
Absurd and ridiculous as these instances may appear, they hardly exceed the folly of some of Becan's and Scrieck's derivations from the Dutch.
To be assured of this you have but to compare with that version in the British Museum the most authentic of all derivations from the original, preserved till lately at the Palazzo Massimi in Rome.
Many fanciful derivations for this word have been thought of, but it was no doubt named from its smoothness and softness, resembling the wool of lambs.
Other derivations are from the Latin averrunco: the Italian rogna, a cutaneous disease, etc.
For information about religious rites, and for derivations of names (e.
Varro's derivations are ridiculed by Quintilian i.
The name may perhaps be referred to Anglo-Saxon eorp, wolf, though other derivationshave also been proposed.
But both of these derivations are somewhat uncertain, and especially the former, for I venture to think that lind, gentle, is at least as appropriate for women as lind, snake.
Various local derivations of the name are current, generally connecting it with bhulna, to forget.
The Bharias have forgotten their original affinities, and several stories of the origin of the tribe are based on far-fetched derivations of the name.
Stallbaum, moreover, is perpetually complaining in his notes, that the Etymological Lexicons adopt Plato's derivations as genuine.
Several derivations of names are given by Sokrates, as founded upon the theory opposed to Herakleitus--i.
Various derivationsof the names Poseidon, Hades or Pluto, Persephone or Pherrephatta, &c.
But the interpretation of place-names is not so simple as it looks, and it is easier to criticise other people’s derivations than to find better ones, so that one may admire Dr.
I have noticed it in one of the derivations of cinædus and can only remark that it is a vile libel upon the canine tribe.
He is the man who does not know his derivations nor perceive his tendencies, but who merely feels and acts, valuing in his life its force and its filling, but being careless of its purpose and its form.
Men were then less studious of derivations because they were more conscious of identities.
Both derivations must be considered as conjectural.
This story is clearly based on one of those fanciful punning derivations so dear to the Brahmanical mind, but the legend about being created from scarecrows is found among other agricultural castes of non-Aryan origin, as the Lodhis.
There are various derivations of the name of Netley, but the true one is doubtless from the Anglo-Saxon "Natanleage," a wooded district.
It contains all the essential facts given in Plutarch's work, and the only things omitted are his derivations and mythological speculations, which are really unimportant for the Egyptologist.
The legend here introduces a number of curious derivations of the names of Edfu, &c.
If I believe these latter words to be derivations at all, I do it because I find in words like harelle, &c.
To classify derivations in this manner, is to classify them according to their form.
To classify derivations in this manner is to classify them according to their form.
If I believe these latter words to be derivations at all, I do it because I find in words like handle, &c.
If, however, Pouke is connected with the Sclavonic Bog, these at the most can be onlyderivations from it.
The Irish language has several names for the fairies; all however are forms or derivations of the word Shia,[430] the proper meaning of which seems to be Spirit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derivations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
