Re: Re[2]: [tied] bitch

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From: Brian M. Scott

To: Rick McCallister

Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:55 AM

Subject: Re[2]: [tied] bitch

ON <tík>

This was originally ME <ti:ke> 'a dog', usually deprecatory,
'a cur, a mongrel'; by extension 'a low-bred, lazy, mean,
surly, or ill-mannered fellow, a boor'; by further extension
(from use as a playful reproof to a child) 'a child, a small
boy'.

The OED takes it to have been borrowed from ON <tík>;
Björkman was rather less certain.
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Is there on-line ressources about Old and Middle English ?

Arnaud

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