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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... one's bowels are loosed with fear. Names of living things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is reproductively isolated from other such ...
... one's bowels are loosed with fear. Names of living things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is reproductively isolated from other such ...
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... one's legs in, may be a corruption of Fr nappe pliée: folded sheet. Remember Johnny Appleseed, All ye who love the apple; He served his kind by word and deed In God's grand greenwood chapel. —William H. Venable John “Appleseed” Chapman ...
... one's legs in, may be a corruption of Fr nappe pliée: folded sheet. Remember Johnny Appleseed, All ye who love the apple; He served his kind by word and deed In God's grand greenwood chapel. —William H. Venable John “Appleseed” Chapman ...
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... one's life. diet. ai II: utter. Gk ainigma. enigma. Several critics have described several books or plays—e.g., Waiting for Godot (1952), by Samuel Beckett—as “a mystery wrapped in an enigma,” following Winston Churchill's reference on ...
... one's life. diet. ai II: utter. Gk ainigma. enigma. Several critics have described several books or plays—e.g., Waiting for Godot (1952), by Samuel Beckett—as “a mystery wrapped in an enigma,” following Winston Churchill's reference on ...
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... one's voice. See auei. Other words are more or less accidentally “cocked” (as a gun might literally be—the gun cock is from the animal, via the tap). A coxswain was in charge of a cockboat: a tender on a large ship; the word is from L ...
... one's voice. See auei. Other words are more or less accidentally “cocked” (as a gun might literally be—the gun cock is from the animal, via the tap). A coxswain was in charge of a cockboat: a tender on a large ship; the word is from L ...
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... one's own bootstraps. A bootlegger was orignially a smuggler who hid hides of liquor in the loose tops of his high boots. The two senses of the word boot are combined in the Victorian utterance regarding “a scoundrel, and a good one to ...
... one's own bootstraps. A bootlegger was orignially a smuggler who hid hides of liquor in the loose tops of his high boots. The two senses of the word boot are combined in the Victorian utterance regarding “a scoundrel, and a good one to ...
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