The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001/07/01 - 672 ページ 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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... John Marston spew out the words retrograde, damp, strenuous, spurious, defunct, clumsy, prorump, obstupefact, ventositous; the last three died aborning, although obstupefact sounds worth a resurrection. Shakespeare, as might be expected ...
... John Marston spew out the words retrograde, damp, strenuous, spurious, defunct, clumsy, prorump, obstupefact, ventositous; the last three died aborning, although obstupefact sounds worth a resurrection. Shakespeare, as might be expected ...
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... John. A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, Religion, Geography, History, and Literature, 3d ed. (1914). Elcock, W. D. The Romance Languages (1960, 1975). Ernout, A., and Meillet, A. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine ...
... John. A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology, Religion, Geography, History, and Literature, 3d ed. (1914). Elcock, W. D. The Romance Languages (1960, 1975). Ernout, A., and Meillet, A. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine ...
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... John “Appleseed” Chapman (1774-1847) traveled through the new land starting orchards; helped the new land to blossom. Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem In Praise of Johnny Appleseed. love apple: the tomato, Gm Liebesapfel, Fr pomme d'amour ...
... John “Appleseed” Chapman (1774-1847) traveled through the new land starting orchards; helped the new land to blossom. Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem In Praise of Johnny Appleseed. love apple: the tomato, Gm Liebesapfel, Fr pomme d'amour ...
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... John Bunyan, which the Pilgrim Fathers brought with them to the New World and with which the Bible formed the complete library of many a New England home. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and, we are told, fell first upon ...
... John Bunyan, which the Pilgrim Fathers brought with them to the New World and with which the Bible formed the complete library of many a New England home. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and, we are told, fell first upon ...
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... John O'Keeffe, called by Hazlitt “the English Molière,” was victim of a student parody, of a song from The Agreeable Surprise (1793). Here are two stanzas with the chorus after the laughingly lubricated perversion: For other instances ...
... John O'Keeffe, called by Hazlitt “the English Molière,” was victim of a student parody, of a song from The Agreeable Surprise (1793). Here are two stanzas with the chorus after the laughingly lubricated perversion: For other instances ...
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