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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... genus: homo; species: sapiens. The last three groups are enough for recognition. In zoology, all family names end idae; in botany, all end aceae. Because of figurative application or meaning shifts, some of the Indo-European roots have ...
... genus: homo; species: sapiens. The last three groups are enough for recognition. In zoology, all family names end idae; in botany, all end aceae. Because of figurative application or meaning shifts, some of the Indo-European roots have ...
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... genus Aquila, is the watercolored bird. aquiline. Fr eau: water; hence eager: literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L ...
... genus Aquila, is the watercolored bird. aquiline. Fr eau: water; hence eager: literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L ...
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... (genus Cygnus; hence cygnet: young swan) see suen: sound—though its best-known sound is the swan song, at the moment of its dying. All the swans of England belong to the Crown. Note that the Saxon words here are all monosyllabic. pigge ...
... (genus Cygnus; hence cygnet: young swan) see suen: sound—though its best-known sound is the swan song, at the moment of its dying. All the swans of England belong to the Crown. Note that the Saxon words here are all monosyllabic. pigge ...
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... genus, the sundew family. Diomedes: advised by Zeus. From the meaning “the sky,” was coined the word eudiometer: first, to measure the “good weather”; then, any gas (see esu). From the sense of “clear,” “bright,” came the recent ...
... genus, the sundew family. Diomedes: advised by Zeus. From the meaning “the sky,” was coined the word eudiometer: first, to measure the “good weather”; then, any gas (see esu). From the sense of “clear,” “bright,” came the recent ...
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