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781 Etymology dictionary, p. perch (n.1).2
… or tame bird to rest on" is attested from late 14c.; this led to the general sense of "any thing that any bird alights or rests on" (late 15c.). Figurative sense of "an …
782 Etymology dictionary, p. pet (n.1).2
… or tamed animal kept as a favorite," 1530s, originally in Scottish and northern England dialect (and exclusively so until mid-18c.), a word of unknown origin. Sense …
783 Etymology dictionary, p. pork (n.).2
c. 1300 (early 13c. in surname Porkuiller ), "flesh of a pig as food," from Old French porc "pig, swine, boar," and directly from Latin porcus "pig, tame swine," from PIE root *porko- "young pig." Also in Middle English "a swine, a hog" (c. 1400).
784 Etymology dictionary, p. *porko-.4
… "pig, tame swine," Umbrian purka; Old Church Slavonic prase "young pig;" Lithuanian paršas "pig;" Middle Dutch varken, German Ferkel, Old English fearh "pig, small pig …
785 Etymology dictionary, p. reclaim (v.).3
… "make tame" (mid-15c.), "subdue, reduce to obedience, make amenable to control" (late 14c.). Many Middle English senses lack an apparent notion of return or reciprocation …
786 Etymology dictionary, p. reclaim (v.).4
… of taming wild animals) rather than a suggestion of a return to a previous condition. Related: Reclaimed; reclaiming .
787 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (adj.).1
tame (adj.)
788 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (adj.).3
This is reconstructed to be from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (source also of Old Norse tamr, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch tam, Old High German zam, German zahm "tame").
789 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (adj.).4
… damayati "tames;" Persian dam "a tame animal;" Greek daman "to tame, subdue," dametos "tame;" Latin domare "to tame, subdue;" Old Irish damnaim "I tie up, fasten, I tame, subdue …
790 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (adj.).5
The meaning "spiritless, weak, dull, uninspiring, insipid" is recorded from c. 1600. Related: Tamely; tameless; tameness. As a noun by c. 1300, "tame beasts."
791 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (v.).1
tame (v.)
792 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (v.).2
… ," from tame (adj.), or altered by the form of the adjective from Old English temian "subdue, make tame," from Proto-Germanic *tamjan- (source also of Old Norse temja, Old …
793 Etymology dictionary, p. tame (v.).3
The general sense of "bring into subjection, subdue or restrain" is from late 14c.; as "deprive of courage or spirit" by 1520s. Related: Tamed; taming .
794 Etymology dictionary, p. tamer (n.).2
"one who or that which domesticates or brings into subjection," c. 1400, agent noun from tame (v.).
795 Etymology dictionary, p. truckle (v.).2
… submit tamely," 1610s, originally "sleep in a truckle bed" (see truckle (n.)). Meaning "give precedence, assume a submissive position" (1650s, implied in truckling ) is …
796 Etymology dictionary, p. untamed (adj.).2
mid-14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of tame (v.). Similar formation in Old English untemed, Old Norse utamdr, Old High German ungizamot .
797 Etymology dictionary, p. wield (v.).2
… , compel, tame, subdue" (class VII strong verb; past tense weold, past participle gewealden ), merged with weak verb wyldan, both from Proto-Germanic *waldan "to rule …
798 Etymology dictionary, p. wild (v.).2
"to run wild, refuse to be tamed," Old English awildian (see wild (adj.)). Wilding (n.) in the teen gang sense first recorded 1989. Earlier it meant "plant that grows without cultivation" (1520s).
799 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cage.2
… .... is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind." In Job (41:5) we find these lines
800 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captivity.49
… Assyria tamed back, and stayed not there in the land." In the reign of Pekah, under his proper name of Tiglath-pileser, he is recorded to have raided the northern …