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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... letters of the words they represent. Chortle (by Lewis Carroll) is a fusion of chuckle and snort. Word ways are weird. Combinations are very frequent, and continually fashioned: railroad, paperback, skyscraper, then highriser. English ...
... letters of the words they represent. Chortle (by Lewis Carroll) is a fusion of chuckle and snort. Word ways are weird. Combinations are very frequent, and continually fashioned: railroad, paperback, skyscraper, then highriser. English ...
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... letters and some 45 sounds. Some words, though long, are easy to trace. An electroencephalogram is the writing (gram, graph) of the electric movements of the brain (Greek en, in; kephale, head). Some words, though short, have traced a ...
... letters and some 45 sounds. Some words, though long, are easy to trace. An electroencephalogram is the writing (gram, graph) of the electric movements of the brain (Greek en, in; kephale, head). Some words, though short, have traced a ...
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... letter is e at the end of a word. This, however, often has the effect of lengthening the preceding vowel, as in human, humane; dam, dame; them, theme; kit, kite; not, note; cut, cute. We are told that more than half of all English words ...
... letter is e at the end of a word. This, however, often has the effect of lengthening the preceding vowel, as in human, humane; dam, dame; them, theme; kit, kite; not, note; cut, cute. We are told that more than half of all English words ...
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... , t, th, have always been confused by careless speakers; their interchange abides in the language. German Theater and French théâtre begin with the same two letters as English theater, but their sound is t, as opposed to.
... , t, th, have always been confused by careless speakers; their interchange abides in the language. German Theater and French théâtre begin with the same two letters as English theater, but their sound is t, as opposed to.
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... letters may be sounded: agnostic, recognize; one is silent at the end, as in benign, but note malignant. German Knabe: boy, with the k sounded, became English knave, with silent k. Greek u is usually turned into English y, as gune ...
... letters may be sounded: agnostic, recognize; one is silent at the end, as in benign, but note malignant. German Knabe: boy, with the k sounded, became English knave, with silent k. Greek u is usually turned into English y, as gune ...
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