do you mean dear othman?
"FrisbeeĀ®" wrote:
Deer:
She watched from her cabin window as a herd of deer grazed on the lawn and
drank from the nearby lake.
> Plz 2 B stop trying so hard 2 B LotW
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> rgs
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Deer:
WORD HISTORY In various Middle English texts one finds a fish, an ant, or
a fox called a der, the Middle English ancestor of our word deer. In its Old
English form dÄor, our word referred to any animal, including members of the
deer family, and continued to do so in Middle English, although it also
acquired the specific sense āa deer.ā By the end of the Middle English
period, around 1500, the general sense had all but disappeared. Deer is a
commonly cited example of a semantic process called specialization, by which
the range of a word's meaning is narrowed or restricted. When Shakespeare
uses the expression āmice and rats, and such small deerā for Edgar's diet in
King Lear, probably written in 1605, we are not sure whether deer has the
general or the specific sense. It is interesting to note that the German word
Tier, the cognate of English deer, still has the general sense of āanimal.ā
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