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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... woman's name, con. means wife (Latin conjunx, joined); and crim. con. is the legal euphemism for unlawful sexual intercourse. Nor is this all. As a prefix, con- may mean against, as in contradict, control. But in the great majority of ...
... woman's name, con. means wife (Latin conjunx, joined); and crim. con. is the legal euphemism for unlawful sexual intercourse. Nor is this all. As a prefix, con- may mean against, as in contradict, control. But in the great majority of ...
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... woman; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man. We may call either of these a hermaphrodite, from a Greek myth: the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphroditos, was granted his plea to be forever joined with his ...
... woman; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man. We may call either of these a hermaphrodite, from a Greek myth: the son of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphroditos, was granted his plea to be forever joined with his ...
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... woman, gives us gynecology. The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as “irregular for hybristic.” Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English, as ius, iuris, justice, jury; iuvenis, iuventus, young ...
... woman, gives us gynecology. The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as “irregular for hybristic.” Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English, as ius, iuris, justice, jury; iuvenis, iuventus, young ...
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... woman of Shamlegh tells Kim that, although she is now an unbeliever, she once was a Ker-listian (Christian). Even the sometimes humorous pun slips into the sound story: pun is shortened from the earlier pundigrion, from the Italian ...
... woman of Shamlegh tells Kim that, although she is now an unbeliever, she once was a Ker-listian (Christian). Even the sometimes humorous pun slips into the sound story: pun is shortened from the earlier pundigrion, from the Italian ...
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... woman, to try to save her unborn child.) Mastectomy is the removal of a breast; orchidectomy, of a testicle (orchis, orchidem; the flower named from the shape of the root-bulb). Phlebotomy is bloodletting, cutting a vein. Physicians and ...
... woman, to try to save her unborn child.) Mastectomy is the removal of a breast; orchidectomy, of a testicle (orchis, orchidem; the flower named from the shape of the root-bulb). Phlebotomy is bloodletting, cutting a vein. Physicians and ...
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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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