The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsThere 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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Gods , Adam , and other early men and monarchs are usually represented with a beard . The early Egyptians wore a chin beard , frizzled , dyed , hennaed , or plaited with gold thread ; from 3000 to 1580 B.C. a false golden beard was worn ...
Gods , Adam , and other early men and monarchs are usually represented with a beard . The early Egyptians wore a chin beard , frizzled , dyed , hennaed , or plaited with gold thread ; from 3000 to 1580 B.C. a false golden beard was worn ...
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indenture language : early officialese , bureaucrap ; Ascham , in The Scholemaster ( 1568 ) , advised : “ Take Halles Cronicle , where much good matter is quite harmed with indenture English , and first change strange and inkhorn terms ...
indenture language : early officialese , bureaucrap ; Ascham , in The Scholemaster ( 1568 ) , advised : “ Take Halles Cronicle , where much good matter is quite harmed with indenture English , and first change strange and inkhorn terms ...
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The early form OL duellum widened to bellum ( two opposed sides ) ; hence Bellona , Roman goddess of war ; antebellum , post- bellum . rebellion , softened to , and often beginning with , revelry . " Rebellion is as the sin of ...
The early form OL duellum widened to bellum ( two opposed sides ) ; hence Bellona , Roman goddess of war ; antebellum , post- bellum . rebellion , softened to , and often beginning with , revelry . " Rebellion is as the sin of ...
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ancient animal applied bhel bird called caput coined columns compounds dheigh dheigh N dheu earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively four French frequent genus gher gives Greek hand head hence hold horse human imitative Italy John King kleu Latin letters lists literally live Lord meaning meant medhi nebh Note one's onomen originally perhaps person plant play plek Possibly prefix probably Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape song sound speaks stand ster suer term things tree turn ueid usually whence woman words beginning
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| Título | The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots |
| Autor | Joseph Twadell Shipley |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 22 Dic. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0801830044, 9780801830044 |
| Largo | 672 páginas |
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