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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... hence love apple; perhaps the belief grew from the name, which is a mistranslation of It pomodoro, not from adorare: to adore, but from d'or: of gold, from the yellow fruit, or de Moro: of the Moors. See teue. L pomum, Fr pomme, also at ...
... hence love apple; perhaps the belief grew from the name, which is a mistranslation of It pomodoro, not from adorare: to adore, but from d'or: of gold, from the yellow fruit, or de Moro: of the Moors. See teue. L pomum, Fr pomme, also at ...
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... hence era; esteem, estimate, inestimable. aeneous, aeruginous, aerugo. Via Fr, aim, aimless. “Illi robur et aes triplex/Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci/Commisit pelago ratem/Primus” [His heart was mailed in oak and triple brass ...
... hence era; esteem, estimate, inestimable. aeneous, aeruginous, aerugo. Via Fr, aim, aimless. “Illi robur et aes triplex/Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci/Commisit pelago ratem/Primus” [His heart was mailed in oak and triple brass ...
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... hence armomancy. read; rede. hatred; kindred; see gn. riddle has been used for a thousand years to mean a dark saying, the sense of which must be guessed; and almost as long to mean a coarse sieve, for arranging: separating chaff from ...
... hence armomancy. read; rede. hatred; kindred; see gn. riddle has been used for a thousand years to mean a dark saying, the sense of which must be guessed; and almost as long to mean a coarse sieve, for arranging: separating chaff from ...
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... hence onager; ass; also used to name a catapult. M. F. Sheldon, in 1886, translating Flaubert's Salammbo: “Catapults were frequently called onagers, because they were like wild asses, which threw stones by kicking.” L, ass, jackass ...
... hence onager; ass; also used to name a catapult. M. F. Sheldon, in 1886, translating Flaubert's Salammbo: “Catapults were frequently called onagers, because they were like wild asses, which threw stones by kicking.” L, ass, jackass ...
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... hence, a bootless quest, which means not barefoot but bare of favorable result. booties, and the boots one may wear, come via OE bote. Hence also bootblack, bootlick, and the onerous task of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps. A ...
... hence, a bootless quest, which means not barefoot but bare of favorable result. booties, and the boots one may wear, come via OE bote. Hence also bootblack, bootlick, and the onerous task of lifting oneself by one's own bootstraps. A ...
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