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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... root word. But by their roots ye shall know them. Sir William Jones (1745-1794), while a judge in Calcutta, declared: “No philologer can examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common ...
... root word. But by their roots ye shall know them. Sir William Jones (1745-1794), while a judge in Calcutta, declared: “No philologer can examine the Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, without believing them to have sprung from some common ...
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... roots from which current words proliferated. In some instances, the primal root is but slightly changed in the modern variations. Mama, perhaps formed from the m.m.m. of the suckling babe, is meter in Greek, mater in Latin, mère in ...
... roots from which current words proliferated. In some instances, the primal root is but slightly changed in the modern variations. Mama, perhaps formed from the m.m.m. of the suckling babe, is meter in Greek, mater in Latin, mère in ...
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... root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence man, con man, seeks to win your trust so as to cheat you. Finally—as ...
... root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence man, con man, seeks to win your trust so as to cheat you. Finally—as ...
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... root anth, meaning man, is also found in the name Alexander, meaning protector of men. Philander should mean lover of men; as a verb, it has a livelier sense, from stories and plays that have so named a philanderer. Mr. Antrobus ...
... root anth, meaning man, is also found in the name Alexander, meaning protector of men. Philander should mean lover of men; as a verb, it has a livelier sense, from stories and plays that have so named a philanderer. Mr. Antrobus ...
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... root may send forth several words, so one current form may have grown from several roots. Ideas and experiences are infinite; to express them, we have 26 letters and some 45 sounds. Some words, though long, are easy to trace. An ...
... root may send forth several words, so one current form may have grown from several roots. Ideas and experiences are infinite; to express them, we have 26 letters and some 45 sounds. Some words, though long, are easy to trace. An ...
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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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