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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... later that philologists, by a backward coursing—by comparing the different developments in Sanskrit, Greek, and the Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, and Romance branches, and by identifying family likenesses and regular shiftings of sounds ...
... later that philologists, by a backward coursing—by comparing the different developments in Sanskrit, Greek, and the Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, and Romance branches, and by identifying family likenesses and regular shiftings of sounds ...
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... some words beginning with c.o.n. that are not involved in this pattern. On New York's Coney Island men once went shooting coneys, rabbits. In Elizabethan tales, however, coney-catching does not refer to rabbits: coney (as later.
... some words beginning with c.o.n. that are not involved in this pattern. On New York's Coney Island men once went shooting coneys, rabbits. In Elizabethan tales, however, coney-catching does not refer to rabbits: coney (as later.
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... later gull and pigeon) was slang for an easy mark, a dupe. Another such word (of which the origin is unknown) may be hunted in a guessing game by syllables: My first is company; my second shuns company; my third summons company; and my ...
... later gull and pigeon) was slang for an easy mark, a dupe. Another such word (of which the origin is unknown) may be hunted in a guessing game by syllables: My first is company; my second shuns company; my third summons company; and my ...
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... later or alien sources, however, have not basically altered its nature; these have, when necessary, been transformed to fit the pattern of our speech. A bird named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al ...
... later or alien sources, however, have not basically altered its nature; these have, when necessary, been transformed to fit the pattern of our speech. A bird named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al ...
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... later have changed to the next sound to the right. Gutturals: g, k, kh (h), g Examples: genus, kin; choler, gall; host, guest Dentals: d, t, th (f), d Examples: dual, two; triple, three; fume, dust Labials: (v) b, p, ph (f), b (v) ...
... later have changed to the next sound to the right. Gutturals: g, k, kh (h), g Examples: genus, kin; choler, gall; host, guest Dentals: d, t, th (f), d Examples: dual, two; triple, three; fume, dust Labials: (v) b, p, ph (f), b (v) ...
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ancient animal applied associated beauty became bird body called coined color columns comes common compounds Dictionary earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively folkchanged four French frequent genus gives Greek hand head hence hold horse human imitative Italy John King known land language later Latin leaves letters light lists literally live Lord mark meaning meant mind nature never Note one’s originally perhaps person pictured plant play Possibly prefix probably referred Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape short shortened song sound speaks stand star suggested term things translation tree turn usually whence woman words beginning wrote young