Crossword-Solution: ETYMONS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Are these only different forms of _love_? or rather, are they not distinct, important, and original verbs, pure and perfect _in_ and _of_ themselves? Ask for their etymons and meaning, and then decide.

Two years later we find Borrow writing to an unknown correspondent upon a phase of folk-lore: OULTON, LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, _August 11, 1843._ MY DEAR SIR,--Many thanks for your interesting and kind letter in which you do me the honour to ask my opinion respecting the pedigree of your island goblin, le feu follet Belenger; that opinion I cheerfully give with a premise that it is only an opinion; in hunting for the etymons of these fairy names we can scarcely expect to arrive at anything like certainty.

Perhaps no part of the entire work is more characteristic of the vanity and blindness of the writer than his preface to this second part, where he gravely takes his guide, Goropius, to task for founding so large a work as the _Becceselana_ on so small a foundation as the "_bec_" of Psammetichus, and regrets that his predecessor did not confine himself to etymons more consistent with the local and personal characteristics of his several subjects.

The name of the mountain itself has been jeered at as a post-boy's name, and romantically-minded people use the name Blencathara, for which many Celtic etymons have been suggested.

Like every other word in extensive use, whose derivation is not historically certain, the word Fairy has obtained various and opposite etymons.