relight, cognate, delftware, vixen, aglare, glaring, Foote

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Outside the window by Thomas Hardy, delf

Outside the window

"My stick!" he says, and turns in the lane
To the house just left, whence a vixen voice
Comes out with the firelight through the pane,
And he sees within that the girl of his choice
Stands rating her mother with eyes aglare
For something said while he was there.

"At last I behold her soul undraped!"
Thinks the man who had loved her more than himself;
"My God--'tis but narrowly I have escaped. -
My precious porcelain proves it delf."
His face has reddened like one ashamed,
And he steals off, leaving his stick unclaimed.

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Authorship

by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) , "Outside the window", from Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces, published 1914

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
by Zenobia P. Perry , "Outside the window" [choral suite: choir of young voices (SATB) and piano], from Choral Suite no. 1





Horton Foote, who chronicled a wistful American odyssey through the 20th century in plays and films mostly set in a small town in Texas and who left a literary legacy as one of the country’s foremost storytellers, died on Wednesday in Hartford. He was 92 and lived in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Wharton, Tex.

relight

/ˌriːˈlʌɪt/

verb

gerund or present participle: relighting

1. light (something) again.

   "he reached for the matches to relight his pipe"

Foote
English (Somerset): 1. nickname for someone with a peculiarity or deformity of the foot, from Middle English fot (Old English fōt), or in some cases from the cognate Old Norse byname Fótr. 2. topographic name for someone who lived at the foot of a hill.

aglare: glaring aglem> with fury>

glare (SHINE) Show phonetics
verb [I]
to shine too brightly:
The sun was glaring right in my eyes.

glare Show phonetics
noun [U]
Tinted windows will cut down the glare/the sun's glare.
This screen gives off a lot of glare.

glaring Show phonetics
adjective
shining too brightly:
glaring light
glaring colours
delftware

The earliest delftware was a faience, a heavy, brown earthenware with opaque white glaze and polychrome decoration, made in the late 16th cent. Some of the earliest imitations of Chinese and Japanese porcelain were made at Delft in the 17th cent. Delft was important as a pottery center from the mid-17th cent. to the end of the 18th cent. By 1850 little of the industry survived. The name delft is also often applied to the wares of similar nature made in 17th-century London, Bristol, and Liverpool.


vixen
n.

1. A female fox.
2. A woman regarded as quarrelsome, shrewish, or malicious.

[From dialectal alteration of Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxe.]

vixenish vix'en·ish adj.
vixenishly vix'en·ish·ly adv.
vixenishness vix'en·ish·ness n.

WORD HISTORY Why does the word fox begin with f but its female counterpart, vixen, begin with v? The answer lies in English dialects. In the speech of Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall, counties of southern England, words that begin with the voiceless fricative sounds (f) and (s) are pronounced instead with voicing, as (v) and (z). (The local rendering of the county name Somerset, in fact, is “Zomerzet.”) The voicing is due to a Middle English sound change and may have roots even earlier. At least three examples of this dialectal pronunciation have entered standard English: vat, vane, and vixen. The first of these is a variant of an earlier word fat; the pronunciation with (f) was still used in the 19th century before being displaced by the southern pronunciation (văt). Vane, which used to mean “flag,” has a cognate in the German word for “flag,” Fahne, showing the original f. Vixen, finally, represents the southern pronunciation of a word that goes back to Old English fyxe, the feminine of fox. It was formed by a change in the root vowel of fox and the addition of a suffix –e or –en. Besides being one of the rare southern English dialect forms to have come into standard English, vixen is also the only survival of this type of feminine noun in the modern language.

cognate
adjective SPECIALIZED
describes languages and words that have the same origin, or that are related and in some way similar:
The Italian word 'mangiare' (= to eat) is cognate with the French 'manger'.

cognate
noun [C] SPECIALIZED
a word that has the same origin, or that is related in some way, to a word in another language

cognate

━━ a., n. 同血族の（人）; 【言】同語族の（言語）; 同語源の（語） ((with)); 【法】女系［母方］の血族（の） ((with)); 関係のある

「EXCEED英和辞典」

• 名
• 1. 〔先祖｛せんぞ｝が同じ〕同族人｛どうぞく じん｝、血族｛けつぞく｝
• 2. 《言語学》〔他言語｛た げんご｝の〕同語源語｛どう ごげん ご｝

• 形
• 1. 〈文〉血族｛けつぞく｝の、祖先｛そせん｝が同じ
• 2. 《言語学》〔語が〕同じ語源｛ごげん｝の
• 3. 〔性質｛せいしつ｝や働きが〕類似｛るいじ｝した、関連｛かんれん｝した