The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001-07-01 - 672 psl. 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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... Helmont, in 1640, was formed by analogy with the word chaos. Gelett Burgess in this century invented the word blurb because it sounds like a publisher. Kodak was coined by cameraman George Eastman, who thought that.
... Helmont, in 1640, was formed by analogy with the word chaos. Gelett Burgess in this century invented the word blurb because it sounds like a publisher. Kodak was coined by cameraman George Eastman, who thought that.
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A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. Kodak was coined by cameraman George Eastman, who thought that k has a commanding sound. Radar (radio detecting and ranging) and scuba (self-contained underwater ...
A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. Kodak was coined by cameraman George Eastman, who thought that k has a commanding sound. Radar (radio detecting and ranging) and scuba (self-contained underwater ...
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... coined the word cardo, cardinis, adjective cardinalis (perhaps fashioned by metathesis from Greek krado, a quivering spray on a branch, then a swingand note the English cradle, the infant's swinging bed) to name the hinge. Hence ...
... coined the word cardo, cardinis, adjective cardinalis (perhaps fashioned by metathesis from Greek krado, a quivering spray on a branch, then a swingand note the English cradle, the infant's swinging bed) to name the hinge. Hence ...
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... coined jovial, rascality, notoriety, extensively. In his play The Poetaster Ben Jonson makes John Marston spew out the words retrograde, damp, strenuous, spurious, defunct, clumsy, prorump, obstupefact, ventositous; the last three died ...
... coined jovial, rascality, notoriety, extensively. In his play The Poetaster Ben Jonson makes John Marston spew out the words retrograde, damp, strenuous, spurious, defunct, clumsy, prorump, obstupefact, ventositous; the last three died ...
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... coined by physicians, inventors, and scientists to label new diseases, devices, discoveries, and ideas. Medical menespecially, recently, psychiatrists and Freudianshave reveled in word formation. A patient may feel reassured on the ...
... coined by physicians, inventors, and scientists to label new diseases, devices, discoveries, and ideas. Medical menespecially, recently, psychiatrists and Freudianshave reveled in word formation. A patient may feel reassured on the ...
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