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Mistel is the Anglo-Saxon word for dung, and tan is the word for twig—dung on a twig.
Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008
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Mistel is the Anglo-Saxon word for dung, and tan is the word for twig—dung on a twig.
Sacred Evergreens Joanna Waugh 2008
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"Mistel" is the Anglo-Saxon word for dung, and "tan" is the word for twig.
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[163: 1] "_Mistel_ est a _mist_ stercus, quod ex stercore avium pronascitur, nec aliter pronasci potest."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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But the opposite opinion was perpetuated in the very name ( "Mistel: fimus, muck,"
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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