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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... whence also our word I can. This meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence ...
... whence also our word I can. This meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence ...
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... whence Singapore. The map of India is dotted with names ending in puram or pur, such as Mahabalipuram, Rampur, and the one that has come into English as the riding breeches and boots, the jodhpurs. In America, Minneapolis combines the ...
... whence Singapore. The map of India is dotted with names ending in puram or pur, such as Mahabalipuram, Rampur, and the one that has come into English as the riding breeches and boots, the jodhpurs. In America, Minneapolis combines the ...
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... whence our fowl. Vogel is German for bird. Latin scintilla came directly into English, giving us scintillate as well; by metathesis it is also the source of tinsel and stencil. Reduplication. A sound may, in early speech, be reduplicated ...
... whence our fowl. Vogel is German for bird. Latin scintilla came directly into English, giving us scintillate as well; by metathesis it is also the source of tinsel and stencil. Reduplication. A sound may, in early speech, be reduplicated ...
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... whence your and your country's constitution. Lost. Sounds. Roots beginning with s before a consonant may lose the s. The root stern: stiff, comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to prickly plants ...
... whence your and your country's constitution. Lost. Sounds. Roots beginning with s before a consonant may lose the s. The root stern: stiff, comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to prickly plants ...
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... the South American rodent was found useful in experimentation, whence the use of guinea pig for a human so used. Not a household pet but a frequent household pest is the mouse; see mus. Its cousin vermin, the rat, has.
... the South American rodent was found useful in experimentation, whence the use of guinea pig for a human so used. Not a household pet but a frequent household pest is the mouse; see mus. Its cousin vermin, the rat, has.
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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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