http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/gleanings/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:14:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/gleanings/comment-page-1/#comment-152419 The Evasive Yeoman : OUPblog Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:42:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/gleanings/#comment-152419 [...] an old post devoted to the role of luck and serendipity in etymological research, I mentioned the word yeoman, [...] [...] an old post devoted to the role of luck and serendipity in etymological research, I mentioned the word yeoman, [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/gleanings/comment-page-1/#comment-7380 John Cowan Wed, 30 May 2007 15:11:03 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/05/gleanings/#comment-7380 <i>Altus</i> does not combine two contradictory meanings: its unitary meaning is 'large in the vertical dimension', which in English we call <i>high</i> if we are conceptually at the bottom, as in <i>high mountain</i>, or <i>deep</i> if we are conceptually at the top, as in <i>deep valley</i>. Altus does not combine two contradictory meanings: its unitary meaning is ‘large in the vertical dimension’, which in English we call high if we are conceptually at the bottom, as in high mountain, or deep if we are conceptually at the top, as in deep valley.

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