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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... mind the story of the proud Persian prince who, to display his skill to his bride, shot a deer in full leap, so that the arrow pierced at once its heel and its heart. When she said, “One takes that for granted,” he in his fury ordered ...
... mind the story of the proud Persian prince who, to display his skill to his bride, shot a deer in full leap, so that the arrow pierced at once its heel and its heart. When she said, “One takes that for granted,” he in his fury ordered ...
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... mind; always in the plural, the vomitoria were the exits of the great amphitheatres. The word has been used figuratively, as when Blackwell's Magazine in 1830 spoke of “our three great theatres, which Mr. Prynne proved long ago to be ...
... mind; always in the plural, the vomitoria were the exits of the great amphitheatres. The word has been used figuratively, as when Blackwell's Magazine in 1830 spoke of “our three great theatres, which Mr. Prynne proved long ago to be ...
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... mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term that James Joyce secularized, meaning sudden enlightenment. theophany: the manifestation of a god; Jehovah showed only his back side to Moses, lest the full vision ...
... mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term that James Joyce secularized, meaning sudden enlightenment. theophany: the manifestation of a god; Jehovah showed only his back side to Moses, lest the full vision ...
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... 1602. “Let justice be done and be seen to be done,” says the British House of Lords when it agrees to try a case. Here, too, is the word future: what is to be. dubious: to be of two minds; dubitation, indubitably. Fr doubt.
... 1602. “Let justice be done and be seen to be done,” says the British House of Lords when it agrees to try a case. Here, too, is the word future: what is to be. dubious: to be of two minds; dubitation, indubitably. Fr doubt.
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... minds; dubitation, indubitably. Fr doubt. superb: to be above, superior. tribe: a division, third part, of the Roman people ... mind. Boer: farmer; boor. neighbor: nearby farmer. bower; bowery. byre; by(e)law. The last element of Gaelic ...
... minds; dubitation, indubitably. Fr doubt. superb: to be above, superior. tribe: a division, third part, of the Roman people ... mind. Boer: farmer; boor. neighbor: nearby farmer. bower; bowery. byre; by(e)law. The last element of Gaelic ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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