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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... comes the term psychology. Psyche (breath, soul) was briefly the mate of the child-god (not of love, as is commonly said, but of desire) Greek Eros (Roman Cupid): these names give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and ...
... comes the term psychology. Psyche (breath, soul) was briefly the mate of the child-god (not of love, as is commonly said, but of desire) Greek Eros (Roman Cupid): these names give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and ...
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... comes trailing at twenty-fourth. Apparently we are not especially egotistical. Consonant. Shiftings. Many of the consonantal variations have been set into a pattern known as Grimm's Law, established in 1822 by the fairy tale man, Jakob ...
... comes trailing at twenty-fourth. Apparently we are not especially egotistical. Consonant. Shiftings. Many of the consonantal variations have been set into a pattern known as Grimm's Law, established in 1822 by the fairy tale man, Jakob ...
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... comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to prickly plants, became English thorn (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish ...
... comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to prickly plants, became English thorn (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish ...
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... comes off disentangled. catamountain. A cat-burglar, also called a secondstory man, climbs up the outside of a building, agile as a cat. A Cheshire cat vanishes, all but the grin; first mentioned in 1770, it can be seen disappearing in ...
... comes off disentangled. catamountain. A cat-burglar, also called a secondstory man, climbs up the outside of a building, agile as a cat. A Cheshire cat vanishes, all but the grin; first mentioned in 1770, it can be seen disappearing in ...
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... comes veal. To “kill the fatted calf” is for a special feast on someone's returning, as in the biblical reception of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). Allusions to the prodigal son are innumerable, as in The Merchant of Venice (ii, 6); ...
... comes veal. To “kill the fatted calf” is for a special feast on someone's returning, as in the biblical reception of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). Allusions to the prodigal son are innumerable, as in The Merchant of Venice (ii, 6); ...
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The Origins of English Words– A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1984 |
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