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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... gives us such English words as aphrodisiac. Greek Hermes (Roman Mercury) was the patron god of both merchants and ... give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and erotica. Erotetic, however, means pertaining to questioning ...
... gives us such English words as aphrodisiac. Greek Hermes (Roman Mercury) was the patron god of both merchants and ... give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and erotica. Erotetic, however, means pertaining to questioning ...
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... gives birth to hatred. There are too many phobias, but the phil words also abound. Philanthropy, love of man. Philadelphia, (city of) brotherly love. Philip, lover of horses (hippopotamus, river horse; hippodrome, course for racing ...
... gives birth to hatred. There are too many phobias, but the phil words also abound. Philanthropy, love of man. Philadelphia, (city of) brotherly love. Philip, lover of horses (hippopotamus, river horse; hippodrome, course for racing ...
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... gives us camera-camera obscura: dark room—and comrade, who shared a room; but also, via Low German heben, gives us the vaulted heaven. The sounds d, t, th, have always been confused by careless speakers; their interchange abides in the ...
... gives us camera-camera obscura: dark room—and comrade, who shared a room; but also, via Low German heben, gives us the vaulted heaven. The sounds d, t, th, have always been confused by careless speakers; their interchange abides in the ...
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... gives English bellows, drops the vowel to form the English bladder. Where Greek has o, Latin may have e; as cosmogony, ingenuity. Here, too, the vowel may be dropped; hence gn, agnostic; Germanic kn, know. And the changes continue; that ...
... gives English bellows, drops the vowel to form the English bladder. Where Greek has o, Latin may have e; as cosmogony, ingenuity. Here, too, the vowel may be dropped; hence gn, agnostic; Germanic kn, know. And the changes continue; that ...
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... gives us Constantinople, the metropolis (mother city) and the politics in which we are, willy-nilly, involved; in Sanskrit, city is pur, whence Singapore. The map of India is dotted with names ending in puram or pur, such as ...
... gives us Constantinople, the metropolis (mother city) and the politics in which we are, willy-nilly, involved; in Sanskrit, city is pur, whence Singapore. The map of India is dotted with names ending in puram or pur, such as ...
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