Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [1851], Moby-Dick, or, The whale. (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf642T].
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ETYMOLOGY
“While you take in hand to school others, and to teach
them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue,
leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost
alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that
which is not true.”
Hackluyt.
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“WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal
is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched
or vaulted.”
Webster's Dictionary.
“WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the
Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.”
Richardson's Dictionary.
| &hebwhale; |
Hebrew. |
| κητος |
Greek. |
| CETUS, |
Latin. |
| WHŒL, |
Anglo-Saxon. |
| HVALT, |
Danish. |
| WAL, |
Dutch. |
| HWAL, |
Swedish. |
| WHALE, |
Icelandic. |
| WHALE, |
English. |
| BALEINE, |
French. |
| BALLENA, |
Spanish. |
| PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, |
Fegee. |
| PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE, |
Erromangoan. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 [1851], Moby-Dick, or, The whale. (Harper & Brothers, New York) [word count] [eaf642T].
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