ETYMOLOGY.
| (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School) |
| The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him |
| now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer |
| handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the |
| known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it |
| somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. |
| "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what |
| name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue leaving out, through |
| ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh the signification |
| of the word, you deliver that which is not true."—HACKLUYT |
| "WHALE. ... Sw. and Dan. HVAL. This animal is named from roundness |
| or rolling; for in Dan. HVALT is arched or vaulted."—WEBSTER'S |
| DICTIONARY |
| "WHALE. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. WALLEN; |
| A.S. WALW-IAN, to roll, to wallow."—RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY |
| KETOS, GREEK. |
| CETUS, LATIN. |
| WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. |
| HVALT, DANISH. |
| WAL, DUTCH. |
| HWAL, SWEDISH. |
| WHALE, ICELANDIC. |
| WHALE, ENGLISH. |
| BALEINE, FRENCH. |
| BALLENA, SPANISH. |
| PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. |
| PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, ERROMANGOAN. |
