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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... originally from Scandinavia, but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French, itself an outgrowth of “vulgar” Latin, the speech of the soldiers and traders (and, later, Christian missionaries), who carried the ...
... originally from Scandinavia, but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French, itself an outgrowth of “vulgar” Latin, the speech of the soldiers and traders (and, later, Christian missionaries), who carried the ...
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... originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs. In this sense, we have taken antiphon into English. Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending; it means not the study of flowers, but a bouquet, a garland, of words. Word ways ...
... originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs. In this sense, we have taken antiphon into English. Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending; it means not the study of flowers, but a bouquet, a garland, of words. Word ways ...
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... (originally two-wheeled) vehicle that bounds like a goat (Capri, island of capering goats), equipped with a device that measures and sets a price. But the word ways are not trivial (Latin tri via: gossip, where three roads meet). Words ...
... (originally two-wheeled) vehicle that bounds like a goat (Capri, island of capering goats), equipped with a device that measures and sets a price. But the word ways are not trivial (Latin tri via: gossip, where three roads meet). Words ...
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... the Amstel River. English (Shakespeare's) Harry le Roi was Prince Hal. From the “gramarye” of medieval witchcraft and alchemy, grammar and glamour (originally a spell, still the spell of beauty) are variants of a single.
... the Amstel River. English (Shakespeare's) Harry le Roi was Prince Hal. From the “gramarye” of medieval witchcraft and alchemy, grammar and glamour (originally a spell, still the spell of beauty) are variants of a single.
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... (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish. Similarly, the root stene, whence stentorian, also gave us thunder and the Norse god of thunder, Thor, after whom we ...
... (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish. Similarly, the root stene, whence stentorian, also gave us thunder and the Norse god of thunder, Thor, after whom we ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Korlátozott előnézet - 2001 |
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2001 |
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