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Dear tsuwm,
Quinion writes:
There are actually four fell words in English; apart from this one, there is the verb meaning to cut down (intimately linked with fall), the one meaning an animal skin (as in the obsolete trade of fellmonger), and the one meaning a hill (as in the fells of Cumbria). They all come from different source words.
We've got the fell swoop fell, and he writes about the three beyond the swoop fell: the fall, the skin, and the hill.
My question is, what with dell's being a hollow down in the hills, and fell's being a hill, is there something geographical in the ell ending? "The farmer on the fell, another in the dell, heigh-ho the derry-o!, the farmer on the fell!---or in the dell!"
Best regards,
WordWoe
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Taking a Dive stales 02/25/02 02:16 AM Re: Taking a Dive tsuwm 02/25/02 02:46 AM Re: Taking a Dive stales 02/25/02 05:10 AM Re: Taking a Dive Wordwind 02/25/02 09:40 AM Fellmonger Jackie 02/25/02 03:57 PM Re: Fellmonger wwh 02/25/02 04:40 PM Re: swoop vs stoop wwh 02/25/02 07:20 PM Re: swoop vs stoop RhubarbCommando 02/26/02 11:48 AM Re: swoop vs stoop wwh 02/26/02 02:41 PM . Max Quordlepleen 02/25/02 07:48 PM Re: Fellmonger of troy 02/25/02 08:17 PM Re: Fellmonger tsuwm 02/25/02 08:23 PM Re: Fellmonger of troy 02/25/02 08:27 PM . Max Quordlepleen 02/25/02 08:39 PM Re: Fellmonger belMarduk 02/25/02 09:14 PM . Max Quordlepleen 02/25/02 09:37 PM Re: Fellmonger Wordwind 02/25/02 10:06 PM Re: Fellmonger Capital Kiwi 02/26/02 08:20 PM Did fur used to be fell? TEd Remington 02/26/02 09:23 PM Re: Taking a Dive wwh 02/25/02 02:46 AM Re: Taking a Dive slithy toves 02/25/02 02:55 AM Re: Taking a Dive Keiva 02/25/02 02:57 AM Re: Taking a Dive NicholasW 02/25/02 08:25 AM The Thane of Fife belligerentyouth 02/25/02 09:28 AM Re: The Thane of Fife jmh 02/25/02 10:34 AM Re: Doctor Fell wwh 02/25/02 02:47 PM Re: Doctor Fell jmh 02/25/02 04:39 PM Re: Doctor Fell Bingley 03/22/02 04:54 AM
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