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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... nes; hence paternoster, the prayer to our Father (in heaven), and the medieval nostrum, literally “our own”: a secret recipe, concocted by the man, usually a quack, that sold it. In Greek the letter gamma, before kappa, chi, khi, or.
... nes; hence paternoster, the prayer to our Father (in heaven), and the medieval nostrum, literally “our own”: a secret recipe, concocted by the man, usually a quack, that sold it. In Greek the letter gamma, before kappa, chi, khi, or.
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... literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L insula, probably from in salo: in the salt (sea). Thus also islet, as the ...
... literally, water-spear: a tidal flood. Island is “land on water,” the first syllable changed from Gc ey to is (silent s) by association with isle, which was L insula, probably from in salo: in the salt (sea). Thus also islet, as the ...
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... literally be—the gun cock is from the animal, via the tap). A coxswain was in charge of a cockboat: a tender on a large ship; the word is from L caudex: tree trunk, block of wood. (Split the woodblock into writing tablets and there come ...
... literally be—the gun cock is from the animal, via the tap). A coxswain was in charge of a cockboat: a tender on a large ship; the word is from L caudex: tree trunk, block of wood. (Split the woodblock into writing tablets and there come ...
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... (literally, chief guardian), Greek mathematician (d. 212 B.C.), declared that if he had a long enough lever he could lift the world. He did invent the Archimedean screw for raising water, which is still used in Egypt. An archipelago (Gk ...
... (literally, chief guardian), Greek mathematician (d. 212 B.C.), declared that if he had a long enough lever he could lift the world. He did invent the Archimedean screw for raising water, which is still used in Egypt. An archipelago (Gk ...
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