The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJohns Hopkins University Press, 1984 M03 1 - 672 pages 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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... early men and monarchs are usually represented with a beard . The early Egyptians wore a chin beard , frizzled , dyed , hennaed , or plaited with gold thread ; from 3000 to 1580 B.C. a false golden beard was worn by kings , and some ...
... early men and monarchs are usually represented with a beard . The early Egyptians wore a chin beard , frizzled , dyed , hennaed , or plaited with gold thread ; from 3000 to 1580 B.C. a false golden beard was worn by kings , and some ...
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... early as 1300. Hence , a zigzag line , as in Purchas ' Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) : “ " Their crisses or daggers are two foot long , waved indenture fashion , and poysoned . " indenture language : early officialese , bureaucrap ; Ascham , in ...
... early as 1300. Hence , a zigzag line , as in Purchas ' Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) : “ " Their crisses or daggers are two foot long , waved indenture fashion , and poysoned . " indenture language : early officialese , bureaucrap ; Ascham , in ...
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... early form OL duellum widened to bellum ( two opposed sides ) ; hence Bellona , Roman goddess of war ; antebellum , post- bellum . rebellion , softened to , and often beginning with , revelry . " Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft ...
... early form OL duellum widened to bellum ( two opposed sides ) ; hence Bellona , Roman goddess of war ; antebellum , post- bellum . rebellion , softened to , and often beginning with , revelry . " Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
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