PEDIGREE  , a genealogical See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree, a See also:

• TABULAR

tabular statement of descent (see See also:

• GENEALOGY (from the Gr. yivos, family, and Vryos, theory)

GENEALOGY) . The word first appears at the beginning of the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and takes an extraordinary variety of forms,e.g. pedicree, pe de gre, petiegrew, petygru, &c . It is generally accepted that these point to a corruption of Fr. pied de grue, See also:

• FOOT

foot of a See also:

• CRANE (in Dutch, Kraan; O. Ger. Kraen; cognate, as also the Lat. grus, and consequently the Fr. grue and Span. grulla, with the Gr. dpavos)
• CRANE, STEPHEN (1870-1900)
• CRANE, WALTER (1845– )
• CRANE, WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )

crane, and that the probable reference is to the marks resembling the claw of a See also:

• BIRD

bird found in old genealogies showing the lines of descent . Such etymologies as Minshea's See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par degres, by degrees, or Pere degres, descent by the See also:

• FATHER

father, are See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere guesses .