The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJohns Hopkins University Press, 01 մրտ, 1984 թ. - 672 էջ 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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... bird ) : the mucus secreted by the salivary glands of a genus of swift , from which bird's - nest soup is made . The word new takes up 7 columns in OED , and is followed by over 18 columns of combinations , as new - bear : a cow that ...
... bird ) : the mucus secreted by the salivary glands of a genus of swift , from which bird's - nest soup is made . The word new takes up 7 columns in OED , and is followed by over 18 columns of combinations , as new - bear : a cow that ...
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... bird to fly , came fledge . fledgling ; flèche ; fletcher : maker of arrows ; remaining as a name . By metathesis again ( flug to fugl ) came fowl ; Vogel , the v sounded f , is German for bird . In Gaelic came the form linn : a stream ...
... bird to fly , came fledge . fledgling ; flèche ; fletcher : maker of arrows ; remaining as a name . By metathesis again ( flug to fugl ) came fowl ; Vogel , the v sounded f , is German for bird . In Gaelic came the form linn : a stream ...
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... bird utters resembles a croak . One aspect of the bird is caught in the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : “ A fat swan loved he best of any roast . " OED gives 4 columns to the word swan and special com- binations , as swan quill ...
... bird utters resembles a croak . One aspect of the bird is caught in the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales : “ A fat swan loved he best of any roast . " OED gives 4 columns to the word swan and special com- binations , as swan quill ...
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