{"id":"01KF7FPMGJZVB0F49JDCVFCEMB","cid":"bafkreib7ivb6da2kkkdybopiltsfc4vti6mu4olofp4kuzrxipq54vkzrm","type":"section","properties":{"end_line":370,"extracted_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.039Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"ETYMOLOGY","source_file":"01KESYVB66H8YEVTN88DWE9W8D","start_line":332,"text":"  ETYMOLOGY.\r\n\r\n\r\n  (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.)\r\n\r\n  The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him\r\n  now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer\r\n  handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the\r\n  known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it\r\n  somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.\r\n\r\n  “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what\r\n  name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through\r\n  ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the\r\n  signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true.”\r\n  —_Hackluyt._\r\n\r\n  “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. _hval_. This animal is named from\r\n  roundness or rolling; for in Dan. _hvalt_ is arched or vaulted.”\r\n  —_Webster’s Dictionary._\r\n\r\n  “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. _Wallen_;\r\n  A.S. _Walw-ian_, to roll, to wallow.” —_Richardson’s Dictionary._\r\n\r\n\r\n  ‏חו‎,                _Hebrew_.\r\n  ϰητος,             _Greek_.\r\n  CETUS,             _Latin_.\r\n  WHŒL,              _Anglo-Saxon_.\r\n  HVALT,             _Danish_.\r\n  WAL,               _Dutch_.\r\n  HWAL,              _Swedish_.\r\n  HVALUR,            _Icelandic_.\r\n  WHALE,             _English_.\r\n  BALEINE,           _French_.\r\n  BALLENA,           _Spanish_.\r\n  PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE,   _Fegee_.\r\n  PEHEE-NUEE-NUEE,   _Erromangoan_.\r\n\r","title":"ETYMOLOGY"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KF7FPKDT5SHSH1ZQV6ABHQCA","peer_label":"Moby Dick; Or, The Whale","peer_type":"book","predicate":"partOf"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.868Z","ts":"2026-01-18T02:42:15.868Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KF7FCDA7SCSJ6A30TDPDSJQV"}}