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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... earth, water, air, fire). Cardinal is a good example of how meanings multiply. It has no Indo-European root, for the object it names did not exist in those roving days. When the Romans built houses, and devised swinging doors, they ...
... earth, water, air, fire). Cardinal is a good example of how meanings multiply. It has no Indo-European root, for the object it names did not exist in those roving days. When the Romans built houses, and devised swinging doors, they ...
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... earth, the pope. From the cassock of the cardinal the color is named; from the color, (1) an 18th-century lady's cloak, (2) a bird, (3) a flower, (4) a fish—which seems oceans away from a door hinge. Germanic flug became fugl, whence ...
... earth, the pope. From the cassock of the cardinal the color is named; from the color, (1) an 18th-century lady's cloak, (2) a bird, (3) a flower, (4) a fish—which seems oceans away from a door hinge. Germanic flug became fugl, whence ...
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... earth” of the iris surrounded by water. Frisian, the tongue nearest to English, still has ey: island. A small island, as in the Thames, is called an eyot. The island of Jersey (pronounced Jarzee) may have been Caesar's (Czar's) eye ...
... earth” of the iris surrounded by water. Frisian, the tongue nearest to English, still has ey: island. A small island, as in the Thames, is called an eyot. The island of Jersey (pronounced Jarzee) may have been Caesar's (Czar's) eye ...
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... earth's annual rotation; the farther the celestial object, the smaller the parallax. A parallax of one second of arc is called a parsec (from the first syllable of each of the words); it equals 3.258 light-years, or about 1.92 × 1013 ...
... earth's annual rotation; the farther the celestial object, the smaller the parallax. A parallax of one second of arc is called a parsec (from the first syllable of each of the words); it equals 3.258 light-years, or about 1.92 × 1013 ...
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... earth, black is beautiful. Russ, ukase. See kers II. au II: draw water; suck. L haurire, haustum. haustellum, haustorium. exhaust. au III: elder relative. L avunculus. avuncular. uncle. Ir O'. au IV: desire, hence dare. avaricious. avid ...
... earth, black is beautiful. Russ, ukase. See kers II. au II: draw water; suck. L haurire, haustum. haustellum, haustorium. exhaust. au III: elder relative. L avunculus. avuncular. uncle. Ir O'. au IV: desire, hence dare. avaricious. avid ...
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