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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... sense, we have taken antiphon into English. Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending; it means not the study of flowers, but a bouquet, a garland, of words. Word ways, while usually explicable, are always unpredictable. The ...
... sense, we have taken antiphon into English. Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending; it means not the study of flowers, but a bouquet, a garland, of words. Word ways, while usually explicable, are always unpredictable. The ...
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... sense the reason. Metathesis. Metathesis, the transposition of a sound, may occur in bumbling speech. It has created blunders (some devised for humor), which, after the Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844-1930), Warden of New College, Oxford ...
... sense the reason. Metathesis. Metathesis, the transposition of a sound, may occur in bumbling speech. It has created blunders (some devised for humor), which, after the Reverend W. A. Spooner (1844-1930), Warden of New College, Oxford ...
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... sense also change: English pin, French pine (sounded peen) meaning penis. These are some of the ways in which an Indo-European root may have been transformed during the journey across continents and centuries into English. The body of ...
... sense also change: English pin, French pine (sounded peen) meaning penis. These are some of the ways in which an Indo-European root may have been transformed during the journey across continents and centuries into English. The body of ...
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... senses; but the various meanings of make occupy 59 columns in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the definition of cell ... sense has lapsed from use. Thus the noun pluck, first used of feathers, for three hundred years meant the heart ...
... senses; but the various meanings of make occupy 59 columns in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the definition of cell ... sense has lapsed from use. Thus the noun pluck, first used of feathers, for three hundred years meant the heart ...
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... sense of its malfunctioning as to give rise to the orchardmen's slogan: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Temptation: wholesomeness; it is with mixed feelings that one calls New York City “the Big Apple.” See deu; melo. The apple ...
... sense of its malfunctioning as to give rise to the orchardmen's slogan: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Temptation: wholesomeness; it is with mixed feelings that one calls New York City “the Big Apple.” See deu; melo. The apple ...
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