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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... mark, a dupe. Another such word (of which the origin is unknown) may be hunted in a guessing game by syllables: My first is company; my second shuns company; my third summons company; and my whole puzzles company. The word is co/nun ...
... mark, a dupe. Another such word (of which the origin is unknown) may be hunted in a guessing game by syllables: My first is company; my second shuns company; my third summons company; and my whole puzzles company. The word is co/nun ...
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... mark his high authority and protect him from the rays of the sun. Its use in northern lands came much later, against the rain (see ombhr). For Fr parapluie, see per V. Gay, in Trivia (1712), declares: Let Persian maids the umbrella's ...
... mark his high authority and protect him from the rays of the sun. Its use in northern lands came much later, against the rain (see ombhr). For Fr parapluie, see per V. Gay, in Trivia (1712), declares: Let Persian maids the umbrella's ...
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... marks like a cat's scratches; W. S. Gilbert makes play with “the cat” in H.M.S. Pinafore. A cat, of course, has “nine lives”; but the nine tails are supposed to represent the holy number three taken in itself (squared): a divine ...
... marks like a cat's scratches; W. S. Gilbert makes play with “the cat” in H.M.S. Pinafore. A cat, of course, has “nine lives”; but the nine tails are supposed to represent the holy number three taken in itself (squared): a divine ...
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... marks a person or thing connected with Oxford University, from OE Oxenaford, in the river there. Oxtail makes a good soup. A bull's-eye is the dark circle in the center of a target, marking an excellent shot. calf, OE cealf is a ...
... marks a person or thing connected with Oxford University, from OE Oxenaford, in the river there. Oxtail makes a good soup. A bull's-eye is the dark circle in the center of a target, marking an excellent shot. calf, OE cealf is a ...
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... Mark Twain found another distinction: “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” Ten animals, in Muslim legend, have been admitted into paradise: (1) Abraham's ram, sacrificed instead of his son Isaac. The Mohammedans trace ...
... Mark Twain found another distinction: “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” Ten animals, in Muslim legend, have been admitted into paradise: (1) Abraham's ram, sacrificed instead of his son Isaac. The Mohammedans trace ...
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ancient animal applied associated beauty became bird body called coined color columns comes common compounds Dictionary earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively folkchanged four French frequent genus gives Greek hand head hence hold horse human imitative Italy John King known land language later Latin leaves letters light lists literally live Lord mark meaning meant mind nature never Note one’s originally perhaps person pictured plant play Possibly prefix probably referred Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape short shortened song sound speaks stand star suggested term things translation tree turn usually whence woman words beginning wrote young