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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... plant world. The form anther has come unchanged into English, meaning the organ of a flower that secretes its pollen. Anth or anthem occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of numerous flower names. Polyanthus names the primrose family ...
... plant world. The form anther has come unchanged into English, meaning the organ of a flower that secretes its pollen. Anth or anthem occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of numerous flower names. Polyanthus names the primrose family ...
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... plants, became English thorn (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish. Similarly, the root stene, whence stentorian, also gave us thunder and the Norse god of ...
... plants, became English thorn (originally sounded torn, as a skirt may be). Modified again, via Swedish, it gave English turbot, a spiny flatfish. Similarly, the root stene, whence stentorian, also gave us thunder and the Norse god of ...
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... plant, but not eaten by the English and the Americans until after 1830. Chambers's Encyclopaedia of 1753 wonderingly records: Tomato, the Portuguese name for the lycopersicon (Persian wolf) or love-apple, a fruit eaten either stewed or ...
... plant, but not eaten by the English and the Americans until after 1830. Chambers's Encyclopaedia of 1753 wonderingly records: Tomato, the Portuguese name for the lycopersicon (Persian wolf) or love-apple, a fruit eaten either stewed or ...
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... plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement. Thus, via It, analfabeti; though illiteracy does not necessarily mean ignorance; we are told that there have been Italian analfabeti who knew cantos of ...
... plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement. Thus, via It, analfabeti; though illiteracy does not necessarily mean ignorance; we are told that there have been Italian analfabeti who knew cantos of ...
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... plants. andho: dark; shade. See dhue I. L, umbel, umbra, umbrage. umbrella. adumbrate. penumbra. Fr, somber. Sp, sombrero, shades the face. The umbrella was in ancient days borne over a potentate, to mark his high authority and protect ...
... plants. andho: dark; shade. See dhue I. L, umbel, umbra, umbrage. umbrella. adumbrate. penumbra. Fr, somber. Sp, sombrero, shades the face. The umbrella was in ancient days borne over a potentate, to mark his high authority and protect ...
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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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