[F1] Scrimmish
Aug. 18th, 2003 01:17 pm... how sir Henry Percy and sir Ralph his brother took advice to follow the scots to conquer again the pennon that was lost at the scrimmish
... The Scots came to the gates of Durham and scrimmished there.
Как перевести выделенное слово? Источник: The Chronicles of Froissart в переводе John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
Updated: Всем спасибо, а
hotgiraffe и
nalymov - в особенности.
... The Scots came to the gates of Durham and scrimmished there.
Как перевести выделенное слово? Источник: The Chronicles of Froissart в переводе John Bourchier, Lord Berners.
Updated: Всем спасибо, а
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Date: 2003-08-18 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-18 02:25 am (UTC)scrimish
1: Obs. 1. = skirmish n. 2. An alarm, an outcry. rare Cf. scrimmage
2: Obs. intr. To skirmish
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Date: 2003-08-18 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-18 02:25 am (UTC)http://ayrshire.hypermart.net/ayrshire_dialect.htm
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Date: 2003-08-18 02:37 am (UTC)scrimmage - c.1470, alteration of skirmish.
самое смешное (вернее, неожиданное для меня) - это то, что skirmish произошёл от старофранцузского escarmouche под влиянием отдельного глагола skirmysshen "to brandish a weapon"
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Date: 2003-08-18 03:30 am (UTC)