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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... horses (hippopotamus, river horse; hippodrome, course for racing horses). Philosophy, love of wisdom. The first American college fraternity, the honor society ΦBK, Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, takes its name from the initials of its ...
... horses (hippopotamus, river horse; hippodrome, course for racing horses). Philosophy, love of wisdom. The first American college fraternity, the honor society ΦBK, Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, takes its name from the initials of its ...
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... horse, gave English cavalcade, cavalry, cavalier; via Fr, chevalier: first, man on a horse, knight; thence chivalry, etc. It cavaliere servente was a knight in devoted service of a married woman, as prescribed in the medieval circles of ...
... horse, gave English cavalcade, cavalry, cavalier; via Fr, chevalier: first, man on a horse, knight; thence chivalry, etc. It cavaliere servente was a knight in devoted service of a married woman, as prescribed in the medieval circles of ...
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... horse” with swivels and on wheels, permitting various views, especially of a woman preparing her display for a formal function. Hence also clotheshorse. hobby-horse, in Shakespeare's day, was also used of a prostitute, whom any man ...
... horse” with swivels and on wheels, permitting various views, especially of a woman preparing her display for a formal function. Hence also clotheshorse. hobby-horse, in Shakespeare's day, was also used of a prostitute, whom any man ...
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... horse, half man. The centaur Chiron was a healer; hence centaury, the healing plant he used. And Hydrus is a southern constellation near Mensa; see men I. hydra and hydra-headed are still used, figuratively, of difficulties that ...
... horse, half man. The centaur Chiron was a healer; hence centaury, the healing plant he used. And Hydrus is a southern constellation near Mensa; see men I. hydra and hydra-headed are still used, figuratively, of difficulties that ...
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... horse, buttered his hay.” Johnson's Dictionary calls cocksure “a word of contempt.” Lord Melbourne is quoted, in Spectator, 30 Nov. 1889, as saying: “I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.” At first the ...
... horse, buttered his hay.” Johnson's Dictionary calls cocksure “a word of contempt.” Lord Melbourne is quoted, in Spectator, 30 Nov. 1889, as saying: “I wish I were as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.” At first the ...
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