The Etymology of ‘Road’
Briggs examines the etymology of 'road.' Thorlac Turville-Petre has objected to the standard etymology from Old English (OE) rad > Middle English (ME) rode, both meaning 'a ride, an act of riding'. His difficulties are that ME rode will not adequately explain a line in the ME...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Notes and queries 2018-06, Vol.65 (2), p.180-183 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Briggs examines the etymology of 'road.' Thorlac Turville-Petre has objected to the standard etymology from Old English (OE) rad > Middle English (ME) rode, both meaning 'a ride, an act of riding'. His difficulties are that ME rode will not adequately explain a line in the ME poem Patience, nor a particular instance in Shakespeare; and neither will it explain early Scots rode, apparently meaning 'road'. He therefore proposed an alternative origin in OE rodu 'a (linear) clearing', which he sees in a 13th-century reference to Buggilderode in Stowe in Buckinghamshire. |
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| ISSN: | 0029-3970 1471-6941 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/notesj/gjy002 |