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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... horse (in France many butchers specialize in horsemeat); xylophagous: of wood. polyophagous is Greek; the more inclusive omnivorous is Latin. Also apivorous: of bees; baccivorous: of berries, even as you and I; succivorous: of sap ...
... horse (in France many butchers specialize in horsemeat); xylophagous: of wood. polyophagous is Greek; the more inclusive omnivorous is Latin. Also apivorous: of bees; baccivorous: of berries, even as you and I; succivorous: of sap ...
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... horse, one that carries army supplies); some consider this the source of bastard, as though conceived on a packsaddle by the roadside or, indeed, in a barn. Royal bastards were frequently acknowledged and ennobled by their fathers; such ...
... horse, one that carries army supplies); some consider this the source of bastard, as though conceived on a packsaddle by the roadside or, indeed, in a barn. Royal bastards were frequently acknowledged and ennobled by their fathers; such ...
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... horse's head when the bit is tugged). First in Scotland, in the 15th c., bridle was used of a headpiece with bit, for a termagant. Lydgate in 1430 said: “Sensuality holdeth the bridle of lecherous insolence”; more literally the court at ...
... horse's head when the bit is tugged). First in Scotland, in the 15th c., bridle was used of a headpiece with bit, for a termagant. Lydgate in 1430 said: “Sensuality holdeth the bridle of lecherous insolence”; more literally the court at ...
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... horse racing in England. The duke was satirized by Burns, and pictured by Wordsworth and, in The Virginians, by Thackeray. The farkleberry, also called the fartleberry and the sparkleberry, is the “tree huckleberry.” Among animal ...
... horse racing in England. The duke was satirized by Burns, and pictured by Wordsworth and, in The Virginians, by Thackeray. The farkleberry, also called the fartleberry and the sparkleberry, is the “tree huckleberry.” Among animal ...
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... horse to the hilltop and there mated him with a mare; the next morning the horse, remembering, neighed, and Darius was king. Thus was set a precedent followed for 2500 years in many games of “chance.” Fr, berceuse: cradle song. Gc, bear ...
... horse to the hilltop and there mated him with a mare; the next morning the horse, remembering, neighed, and Darius was king. Thus was set a precedent followed for 2500 years in many games of “chance.” Fr, berceuse: cradle song. Gc, bear ...
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