Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

The word Houyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies a horse, and, in its etymology, the perfection of nature. I told my master, “that I was at a loss for expression, but would improve as fast as I could; and hoped, in a short time, I should be able to tell him wonders.” He was pleased to direct his own mare, his colt, and foal, and the servants of the family, to take all opportunities of instructing me; and every day, for two or three hours, he was at the same pains himself. Several horses and mares of quality in the neighbourhood came often to our house, upon the report spread of “a wonderful Yahoo, that could speak like a Houyhnhnm, and seemed, in his words and actions, to discover some glimmerings of reason.”

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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'I think you must be,' said I. 'The only horses I ever heard of as possessing the gift of speech were the Houyhnhnms.' 'How do you know I am not one of them?' he replied.

F. Anstey. The Talking Horse And Other Tales (1892)