The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001. júl. 1. - 672 oldal There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown. Anecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science. |
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... Early English cunnan, to know, to be able, whence also our word I can. This meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of ...
... Early English cunnan, to know, to be able, whence also our word I can. This meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of ...
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... early blending, has continued to welcome into its vocabulary, sometimes with no change, words not only from other branches of Indo-European but also from many other language families around the world. American Indian, Chinese, Arabic ...
... early blending, has continued to welcome into its vocabulary, sometimes with no change, words not only from other branches of Indo-European but also from many other language families around the world. American Indian, Chinese, Arabic ...
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... early instance of this: 42,000 Ephraimites were slain at a River Jordan ford by the Gileadites under Jephthah, betrayed by their inability to pronounce shibboleth, which they sounded with an initial s. We now use shibboleth to mean a ...
... early instance of this: 42,000 Ephraimites were slain at a River Jordan ford by the Gileadites under Jephthah, betrayed by their inability to pronounce shibboleth, which they sounded with an initial s. We now use shibboleth to mean a ...
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... early speech, be reduplicated, as we say chat and chitchat; hurry-scurry. From the root sta, Greek histani led to English system; Latin si-st, to English assist, exist, and more. Verbal. Forms. Words may come into English from various ...
... early speech, be reduplicated, as we say chat and chitchat; hurry-scurry. From the root sta, Greek histani led to English system; Latin si-st, to English assist, exist, and more. Verbal. Forms. Words may come into English from various ...
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... Early English (1955). Skinner, Henry Alan. The Origin of Medical Terms (1970). Walde, Alois, and Hofmann, J. B. Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (1938-55). Walde, Alois, and Pokorny, J. Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der ...
... Early English (1955). Skinner, Henry Alan. The Origin of Medical Terms (1970). Walde, Alois, and Hofmann, J. B. Lateinisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (1938-55). Walde, Alois, and Pokorny, J. Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Korlátozott előnézet - 2001 |
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