Re: Fells and Fields

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Posted by David Evans on December 21, 1998 at 19:52:53:

In Reply to: Fells and Fields posted by Robert Dilley on December 21, 1998 at 15:49:11:

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the word "field" originally
meant "an open space made by felling trees" and so is
cognate with "fell" in the sense of "to cut down."


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