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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... four thousand years ago the Indo-European forms moved south in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, and in other branches across Europe and ultimately to the far ends of the Americas. Along the Mediterranean Sea they grew into Greek and ...
... four thousand years ago the Indo-European forms moved south in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, and in other branches across Europe and ultimately to the far ends of the Americas. Along the Mediterranean Sea they grew into Greek and ...
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... four cardinal points of the compass, of the year, of a horoscope; the cardinal numbers, which, giving quantity without kind or order, enable us to calculate; the cardinal sins (the “seven deadly” ones: pride, lust, envy, anger ...
... four cardinal points of the compass, of the year, of a horoscope; the cardinal numbers, which, giving quantity without kind or order, enable us to calculate; the cardinal sins (the “seven deadly” ones: pride, lust, envy, anger ...
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... four languages “the Secretariat's fear of competence.” And who can blame the rural adolescent who heard on the radio: “Eugene O'Neill won the Pullet Surprise”? A briefly extended pause may add emphasis to what follows it. Juncture ...
... four languages “the Secretariat's fear of competence.” And who can blame the rural adolescent who heard on the radio: “Eugene O'Neill won the Pullet Surprise”? A briefly extended pause may add emphasis to what follows it. Juncture ...
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... four thousand years, and have spread into more than a hundred languages. The differences between, say, Hittite, Phrygian, Minoan, Sumerian, Tocharian, Persian, Pashto, Annamese, Oscan, Latvian, Wendish, or Ukrainian, and English—all ...
... four thousand years, and have spread into more than a hundred languages. The differences between, say, Hittite, Phrygian, Minoan, Sumerian, Tocharian, Persian, Pashto, Annamese, Oscan, Latvian, Wendish, or Ukrainian, and English—all ...
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... four more supplements are now appearing: A-G, 1972; H-N, 1976; O-Scz, 1982 ... The Rhyming Dictionary of J. Walker, first published in 1775, used and referred to by Byron, one of the oldest reference works still in active use, lists ...
... four more supplements are now appearing: A-G, 1972; H-N, 1976; O-Scz, 1982 ... The Rhyming Dictionary of J. Walker, first published in 1775, used and referred to by Byron, one of the oldest reference works still in active use, lists ...
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