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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... prefix, con- may mean against, as in contradict, control. But in the great majority of its occurrences the prefix con- is a shift, for easier sounding, of com-, together. Com- remains before b, m, and p; it changes before c, d, f, g, j ...
... prefix, con- may mean against, as in contradict, control. But in the great majority of its occurrences the prefix con- is a shift, for easier sounding, of com-, together. Com- remains before b, m, and p; it changes before c, d, f, g, j ...
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... prefix, however, ant may come from either ante, before (anticipate, antediluvian) or anti, against (antagonist, antimacassar: protection on chair against hair oil, which in Victorian days was imported from Macassar, a port on Sulawesi ...
... prefix, however, ant may come from either ante, before (anticipate, antediluvian) or anti, against (antagonist, antimacassar: protection on chair against hair oil, which in Victorian days was imported from Macassar, a port on Sulawesi ...
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... prefixes, suffixes, and midfixes from the basic stems, scholars have been able to follow seemingly quite different words back to a single root. The most frequent of these forms and transformations are presented here with their current ...
... prefixes, suffixes, and midfixes from the basic stems, scholars have been able to follow seemingly quite different words back to a single root. The most frequent of these forms and transformations are presented here with their current ...
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... prefix. First meaning around, then all around, it came to be used as an intensive, for emphasis. Editor James Murray spoke of 1500 such words from which to select for OED; OED lists 262, then details others in 39 columns. They seem to ...
... prefix. First meaning around, then all around, it came to be used as an intensive, for emphasis. Editor James Murray spoke of 1500 such words from which to select for OED; OED lists 262, then details others in 39 columns. They seem to ...
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... prefix, ana: up, again, anew; back, over again. OED has 35 columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous— with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement ...
... prefix, ana: up, again, anew; back, over again. OED has 35 columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous— with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement ...
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