The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 01 հլս, 2001 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 named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al Rashid, of the Arabian Nights, is Aaron the Upright) became Portuguese alcatraz, which we retain as the name of an island prison; but the color of the bird ...
... bird named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al Rashid, of the Arabian Nights, is Aaron the Upright) became Portuguese alcatraz, which we retain as the name of an island prison; but the color of the bird ...
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... bird. Thrill was earlier thyrl. In current use are the cardinal number three and the ordinal third (not thrid, although Gower in 1393 said that air “is eke the thridde element”: earth, water, air, fire). Cardinal is a good example of ...
... bird. Thrill was earlier thyrl. In current use are the cardinal number three and the ordinal third (not thrid, although Gower in 1393 said that air “is eke the thridde element”: earth, water, air, fire). Cardinal is a good example of ...
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... bird, (3) a flower, (4) a fish—which seems oceans away from a door hinge. Germanic flug became fugl, whence our fowl. Vogel is German for bird. Latin scintilla came directly into English, giving us scintillate as well; by metathesis it ...
... bird, (3) a flower, (4) a fish—which seems oceans away from a door hinge. Germanic flug became fugl, whence our fowl. Vogel is German for bird. Latin scintilla came directly into English, giving us scintillate as well; by metathesis it ...
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... bird's call). Others have been modified along the way from IndoEuropean to bring them nearer the speaker's idea of the sound. The root pneu: breath, gives us, via Greek, pneumatic, pneumonia, etc.; but the Germanic form, fneasan, has ...
... bird's call). Others have been modified along the way from IndoEuropean to bring them nearer the speaker's idea of the sound. The root pneu: breath, gives us, via Greek, pneumatic, pneumonia, etc.; but the Germanic form, fneasan, has ...
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... bird. aquiline. Fr eau: water; hence eager: literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L insula, probably from in salo: in ...
... bird. aquiline. Fr eau: water; hence eager: literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L insula, probably from in salo: in ...
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