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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... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION FREQUENT WORD FORMS AND TRANSFORMATIONS NOTES ON USAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS INDEX OF ENGLISH WORDS Acknowledgments Any dictionary, especially a discursive one such as this,
... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION FREQUENT WORD FORMS AND TRANSFORMATIONS NOTES ON USAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS INDEX OF ENGLISH WORDS Acknowledgments Any dictionary, especially a discursive one such as this,
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... especially a discursive one such as this, bears a heavy debt to forebears in many times and languages. Some nearer ones are mentioned in the bibliography. Many others, named in the book, by their wit, wisdom, and quest of beauty, have ...
... especially a discursive one such as this, bears a heavy debt to forebears in many times and languages. Some nearer ones are mentioned in the bibliography. Many others, named in the book, by their wit, wisdom, and quest of beauty, have ...
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... especially in musical terms, con brio, con amore, and more. Note that the first con means against, the last means with. Yet these two opposites spring from the one Indo-European root kom, meaning beside. If two things are next to each ...
... especially in musical terms, con brio, con amore, and more. Note that the first con means against, the last means with. Yet these two opposites spring from the one Indo-European root kom, meaning beside. If two things are next to each ...
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... especially in the sciences, to combine its words from Greek or Latin roots. Thus anthropology means the study of man. Greek logos (word, talk, reason, logic) provides many English words ending in (o)logy, meaning the study of ...
... especially in the sciences, to combine its words from Greek or Latin roots. Thus anthropology means the study of man. Greek logos (word, talk, reason, logic) provides many English words ending in (o)logy, meaning the study of ...
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... especially if we count the scientific terms, by far the majority of our words have traveled through Greek or Latin, often reaching English via French. During these journeyings, certain patterns of form or transformation have recurred so ...
... especially if we count the scientific terms, by far the majority of our words have traveled through Greek or Latin, often reaching English via French. During these journeyings, certain patterns of form or transformation have recurred so ...
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ancient animal applied associated beauty became bird body called coined color columns comes common compounds Dictionary earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively folkchanged four French frequent genus gives Greek hand head hence hold horse human imitative Italy John King known land language later Latin leaves letters light lists literally live Lord mark meaning meant mind nature never Note one’s originally perhaps person pictured plant play Possibly prefix probably referred Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape short shortened song sound speaks stand star suggested term things translation tree turn usually whence woman words beginning wrote young