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The Rise of the New English.
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Fell (mons) Looby Slant
Flake Lubber Spar
Flat Lug (trahere) Squeal
Froth Mistake Stagger
Gall (vulnus) Odd Sway (flectere)
Gasp Pebble Tarn
Gill (fauces) Pikestaff Throb
Glimmer Rate (vituperare) Tike
Glum Reef Trill
Haberdasher Rugged Trip
Happy Shout Windlass[1]
Leap year Skirt Wrangle

Celtic words, first found in English in the Fourteenth Century.

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Basket Drudge Rub
Bodkin Gown Spigot
Boisterous Kick Spike
Cobbler Peck (a measure) Strumpet
Crag Pour Tinker
Daub Rail (a fence) Whin[2]

TABLE II.

Words, akin to the Dutch and German, first found in England in the Fifteenth Century.

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Block Bud Cork
Blow (plaga) Bulwark Croon
Brick Clammy Chap (scindere)
  1. The old word was windass, and l is inserted; r is the favourite insertion in English.
  2. Of course, it is hopeless to attempt to give the French words first used in England in this century; they would fill many pages.