Introduction to the study of the history of language

by Herbert A. Strong; Willem Sijbrand Logeman; Benjamin Ide Wheeler

[51] Numerous instances are given in Hodgson, p. 105, and in Mätzner, vol. iii., p, 80.

[52] A strict attention to this difference would involve the transference of some of Professor Wheeler’s examples, in his admirable pamphlet on Analogy, to the head of ‘Contamination.’

[53] ‘Synonymous’ must here be understood in a wide sense, embracing sets of words which, though really distinct in meaning as well as origin, become confused, and consequently become synonymous merely by misunderstanding (see our first example).

[54] Skeat, Principles of English Etymology, p. 357.

[55] Skeat, Principles of English Etymology, p. 361.

[56] Cf. ibid., p. 368.

[57] Cf. Gröber, p. 630.

[58] Gröber, p. 524.

[59] Ibid., p. 629.

[60] Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary, p. 363.