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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... suggests that they go “she-ing”; he'll provide the “shees”—which they would both spell s.k.i.s. In William the Conqueror's census roll (1086), Shipley is spelled Sciplea (pronounced sheep-lea). Schacosper is among the 83 spellings of ...
... suggests that they go “she-ing”; he'll provide the “shees”—which they would both spell s.k.i.s. In William the Conqueror's census roll (1086), Shipley is spelled Sciplea (pronounced sheep-lea). Schacosper is among the 83 spellings of ...
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... suggested. Some trace cockney to Fr coquin; rascal; this is itself from Fr coq: cock, imitative of the rooster's call; Skr kakila; L coco coco or cucucuru; E cock-a-doodle-do; see ane; kokila. The other suggestion is emphasized by the ...
... suggested. Some trace cockney to Fr coquin; rascal; this is itself from Fr coq: cock, imitative of the rooster's call; Skr kakila; L coco coco or cucucuru; E cock-a-doodle-do; see ane; kokila. The other suggestion is emphasized by the ...
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... suggested that this may be from the perennial obscene gesture of “showing the fig” (It fico), as in the sycophant's mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term that James Joyce secularized, meaning sudden ...
... suggested that this may be from the perennial obscene gesture of “showing the fig” (It fico), as in the sycophant's mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term that James Joyce secularized, meaning sudden ...
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... suggest a brush, whisk being imitative of the swish of a brush on clothes. Similarly echoic is whist, as in shuffling cards; though the interjection Whist!— from which came the name of the card game—was used for what is now the Sh! of ...
... suggest a brush, whisk being imitative of the swish of a brush on clothes. Similarly echoic is whist, as in shuffling cards; though the interjection Whist!— from which came the name of the card game—was used for what is now the Sh! of ...
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... suggests: “Carry her to a bagnio, and there you may lodge with her.” The Turkish bath, hummum, met the same fate; the Hummums, opened in Covent Garden in 1631, were soon suppressed for reasons of immorality. The only two licensed ...
... suggests: “Carry her to a bagnio, and there you may lodge with her.” The Turkish bath, hummum, met the same fate; the Hummums, opened in Covent Garden in 1631, were soon suppressed for reasons of immorality. The only two licensed ...
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