Note 3 — Chapter IV · DEGENERACY OF WORDS.
Reading edition
‘To cleave,’ meaning ‘to adhere to,’ is from the Anglo-Saxon ‘cleofan,’ ‘clufan;’ but in the sense of ‘to split,’ it is from ‘clifan,’ ‘clifian.’ See Mätzner, vol. i. p. 202.
Reading edition
‘To cleave,’ meaning ‘to adhere to,’ is from the Anglo-Saxon ‘cleofan,’ ‘clufan;’ but in the sense of ‘to split,’ it is from ‘clifan,’ ‘clifian.’ See Mätzner, vol. i. p. 202.