The wanderings of plants and animals from their first home / by Victor Hehn; ed. by James Steven Stallybrass.

  • Victor Hehn
Date:
1885
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Credit: The wanderings of plants and animals from their first home / by Victor Hehn; ed. by James Steven Stallybrass. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I'AGE PACK Shushan, Susa : fr, susan (lily) . 475 Spelt: 4€ta, yavas,62; unlike Latin 438 Sipo?j (pomegr.) l8l ; seb . 474 Spicarium, G. speicher (granary). 377 bicera, aiKepa : fr. Heb. shakar . 499 Spindle : how old 67 Sickle, G. sichel : fr. secula 377 Spinea, spionia (kind of vine) : Sicyonian berry (olive) 95 453 SiOt/ (pomegr.) iso ; bide, Sidene, Srupii, serp, SI. (sickle) 438 &;c 181 Stakles, stanu (loom) . 442 Sieves : of linen 142 Stamen, (ttIi^idv (warp) 442 ^iKVQ, Sicyon, aiKV0Q,aiK{)a, 235-6 ; Stipula, stiblo (any stalk) . 430 avKva, rvKva, SI. tykva . 458 Stone-building : came fr. S. Asia Slid, selidi, sil-ke (herring) : fr. to Greece, Italy, 114; unknown salt . , . . . 411 to early Celts, Germans, Slavs. SiXi, a't-atKiQ . . . . 164 11S-117 Siliqua Syriaca (carob) 241 Stone-tools : lasted far into metal Silo [asylum ? ] . 480 age 445-6 Silphium, ai\<piov (a spice) . 96, 153 Storax-tree in Syria ; yields in- Silver : two names, (i) apyvpoQ, cense .... 318-9 argentum, (2) silubr, srebro. Stramenta : for beds . 144 siraplis . . . . . 443 Strata via, street, G. strasze 117 Sinapis, aivcnri, G. senf (mustard) Strawberry-tree (arbutus) : used 163, 377 for fodder 304-5 STroff, zhito (corn): unlike Latin 432-8 Strutheum malum (quince) . 186 Skauda-raip (shoe-string) . 467 Suber (cork oak) 457 Skulls made drinking bowls 32, 413 Sudarium (napkin) 141 Slavs : settled in Greece, 30; wor- Sugar-cane: introd. by Arabs shipped horses 54-5 (zucchero) . . . . 390 Sliva (plum), sloe, schlehe . 288 Sumach ; in Sicily yields fine Slivovica (plum-brandy) 289 tan, 314-5 ; introd. by Arabs Smakka, smokva : fr. avKOv 456-7 (sommaq) . . . . 318 Smells, strong : a counter-charm 158 Sunflower : in the steppes . 240 2/iiX«^,—\oQ (a creeper) = khmell ? 361 Supparus (sail, veil) . 141 Smor (butter) .... 130 Sus (horse) : Semitic . 40 Sneis (twig), sneise (string) 467 Susan (lily) 189 ; Shushan, Susa, Soap : a Northern invention. ioo-\ 475 ; a-zucena 476 Soc, soch, sech (ploughshare) 435 Susi'na, endrina (plum) 288 Sochivo, chechevitsa, SI. (lentils) 166-7 Svatovit : god of light 55 Sokha, szaka (hook, plough) 435 Sveklu (beet) : fr. (teurXov . 377 Solarium, sollar, G. soller . 117 Sycamore, sycamine: fr. Egypt Somaro (ass) 460-1 or Syria (shikmim, —mOt) 291 Sorgo (black millet) . 385 Sycophant . . 86 Sn-aJi^ (palm branch, &c.) . 209, 478 ^vKctnivog, (TVKOfiopog (sycamore. Spargel : fr. asparagus 377 mulberry), cruKapjufa . 291-2, 458 27rapra, OTtvpiv, sporta (broom. avKov (fig), 236; for aFiKov—ficus, hemp) 471 smakka, smokva 458-9 Spartum, esparto . . 134, 151 Szarmonys, szerm., G. hermelin, Spatha, airaQri . . . 442, 478 ermine 492
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