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Latest comment: 12 years ago by Kittybriton

Etymology

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In support of the etymology of this word I should like to submit the following citation from Notes and Queries, vol. IV, no.108, digitized by Project Gutenberg:

In Bailey's Scottish Dictionary, and in Skinner's Etymologicon, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon ear-wicga, i.e. ear-beetle.

--Kittybriton (talk) 12:17, 19 March 2012 (UTC)Reply