The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 M07 1 - 672 páginas 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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... French. Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches, northward turned the Scandinavian, and eastward spread the Baltic and Slavic, including the Russian. English, which in its earliest form was Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) ...
... French. Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches, northward turned the Scandinavian, and eastward spread the Baltic and Slavic, including the Russian. English, which in its earliest form was Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) ...
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... French dialect became the official language of the country, in church (with Latin), in royal court, and in law court. For some three hundred fifty years Anglo-Saxon and Norman French competed, and gradually merged, until Chaucer's poems ...
... French dialect became the official language of the country, in church (with Latin), in royal court, and in law court. For some three hundred fifty years Anglo-Saxon and Norman French competed, and gradually merged, until Chaucer's poems ...
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... French, Mutter in German (which still capitalizes all its nouns), moder in Danish, mat in Russian, mother in English; it embraces all the nursing mammals. We return to this every time we call something yum-yum. Papa exemplifies one of ...
... French, Mutter in German (which still capitalizes all its nouns), moder in Danish, mat in Russian, mother in English; it embraces all the nursing mammals. We return to this every time we call something yum-yum. Papa exemplifies one of ...
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... French garage (automobile barn), Swedish ombudsman, Afrikaans apartheid, Japanese karate (empty hand) and judo (gentle way). It embraces concise or colorful expressions from any source: Spanish pronto, French détente, Russian sputnik ...
... French garage (automobile barn), Swedish ombudsman, Afrikaans apartheid, Japanese karate (empty hand) and judo (gentle way). It embraces concise or colorful expressions from any source: Spanish pronto, French détente, Russian sputnik ...
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... (French feit from Latin factum, made) made against but in imitation of a coveted or currently accepted form. The first counter, a token, springs from Latin computare: to clear, to compute; the second is from the widespread con, against ...
... (French feit from Latin factum, made) made against but in imitation of a coveted or currently accepted form. The first counter, a token, springs from Latin computare: to clear, to compute; the second is from the widespread con, against ...
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