SAUNTER
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SAUNTER , to loiter, lounge, walk idly or Iazily. The derivation of the word has given rise to some curiously far-fetched guesses; thus it has been referred to the Holy Land , La Sainte Terre, where pilgrims lingered and loitered, or to the supposed tendency to idle propensities of those who possess no landed property , sans terre. The most probable suggestions are (1) that of Wedgwood, who connects it with a word in exactly the English sense which appears in various forms in Scandinavian languages , Icel. slentr, Dan. slentre, Swed. slentra, cf. slen, sloth, slunt, lout; this derivation assumes the disappearance of the 1. (2) That supported by Skeat See Also: - SKEAT, WALTER
WILLIAM See Also: - WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
(1835– ) , and first propounded by Blackley (Word Gossip, 1869), which connects it with the Middle Eng. aunter, adventure ; it may represent the Fr. s'aventurer, to go out on an adventure , and the sense-development would be from the idle and apparently objectless expeditions of knights-errant in search of adventure.
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