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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... usually explicable, are always unpredictable. The endings of words must be watched carefully for the changes they make in the root significance. To distinguish between a gourmand and a gourmet, one must take the second portion. Love ...
... usually explicable, are always unpredictable. The endings of words must be watched carefully for the changes they make in the root significance. To distinguish between a gourmand and a gourmet, one must take the second portion. Love ...
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... usually turned into English y, as gune, woman, gives us gynecology. The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as “irregular for hybristic.” Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English, as ius, iuris ...
... usually turned into English y, as gune, woman, gives us gynecology. The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as “irregular for hybristic.” Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English, as ius, iuris ...
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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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... Usually the ose form is more learned, taken directly from the Latin, whereas the ous form came via French. In scientific words, more recently formed, there is another contrast; the ous, as in ferrous (of iron) indicates less of the ...
... Usually the ose form is more learned, taken directly from the Latin, whereas the ous form came via French. In scientific words, more recently formed, there is another contrast; the ous, as in ferrous (of iron) indicates less of the ...
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... usually as a suffix: Lincolniana, Americana. Gc, on, onslaught. aloft. anlage. As a prefix, ana: up, again, anew; back, over again. OED has 35 columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted ...
... usually as a suffix: Lincolniana, Americana. Gc, on, onslaught. aloft. anlage. As a prefix, ana: up, again, anew; back, over again. OED has 35 columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted ...
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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