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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... probably from Galway County, Ireland. Other varieties are worn at will. A general term for hair allowed to grow on the face in addition to the mustache is whiskers. Whiskers were probably so named because they suggest a brush, whisk ...
... probably from Galway County, Ireland. Other varieties are worn at will. A general term for hair allowed to grow on the face in addition to the mustache is whiskers. Whiskers were probably so named because they suggest a brush, whisk ...
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... probably butt, a target. Also buttress; abut, debut, rebut. sackbut. Via Fr bouter: strike against, push, came E button. Via Swedish bott: thick, came the turbot, a stumpy fish; botling: “little stumpy,” the chub; also halibut: a ...
... probably butt, a target. Also buttress; abut, debut, rebut. sackbut. Via Fr bouter: strike against, push, came E button. Via Swedish bott: thick, came the turbot, a stumpy fish; botling: “little stumpy,” the chub; also halibut: a ...
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... probably from an Egyptian word meaning to beget (with divine implications, as in the god Thutmose); but Pharaoh's daughter (Bible, Exodus 2:10) says she named the baby Moses (Hebr M'sh'h) because she drew him out (Hebr m'sh'h) of the ...
... probably from an Egyptian word meaning to beget (with divine implications, as in the god Thutmose); but Pharaoh's daughter (Bible, Exodus 2:10) says she named the baby Moses (Hebr M'sh'h) because she drew him out (Hebr m'sh'h) of the ...
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... probably via OFr fraignant: breaking, fraigneis: uproar; hence a gay, reckless fellow, as used by Lamb in 1810; see kad II, though by Spenser, in The Faerie Queene, v, 3, applied to a loose woman. Also anfractuous: of a broken ...
... probably via OFr fraignant: breaking, fraigneis: uproar; hence a gay, reckless fellow, as used by Lamb in 1810; see kad II, though by Spenser, in The Faerie Queene, v, 3, applied to a loose woman. Also anfractuous: of a broken ...
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... probably wrote 'The History of Richard III', usually ascribed to Sir Thomas More” (who'd been a page in Morton's household). This book is the source of Shakespeare's play, and of the picture of Richard, the hunchback villain, that has ...
... probably wrote 'The History of Richard III', usually ascribed to Sir Thomas More” (who'd been a page in Morton's household). This book is the source of Shakespeare's play, and of the picture of Richard, the hunchback villain, that has ...
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