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Introduction to the study of the history of language

Note 6 — Chapter IV · CHANGE IN WORD-SIGNIFICATION.

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A similar transference is observable in γέρανος, γρῦς, and in words in modern languages expressive of the same idea; cf. also corvus, which means a raven, a grapnel, a battering-ram, a surgical instrument, and a sea-fish.

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