The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsThere 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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Hence , anything on which another thing hinges : the cardinal veins that start circulation in the human embryo ; the four cardinal points of the compass , of the year , of a horoscope ; the cardinal numbers , which , giving quantity ...
Hence , anything on which another thing hinges : the cardinal veins that start circulation in the human embryo ; the four cardinal points of the compass , of the year , of a horoscope ; the cardinal numbers , which , giving quantity ...
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Simultaneous translators at the UN once made " The Secretariat's sphere of competence " become in four languages " the Secretariat's fear of competence . " And. Frequent Word Forms and Transformations xxvi.
Simultaneous translators at the UN once made " The Secretariat's sphere of competence " become in four languages " the Secretariat's fear of competence . " And. Frequent Word Forms and Transformations xxvi.
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It should be remembered that they have grown over a period of some four thousand years , and have spread into more than a hundred languages . The differences between , say , Hittite , Phrygian , Minoan , Sumerian , Tocharian , Persian ...
It should be remembered that they have grown over a period of some four thousand years , and have spread into more than a hundred languages . The differences between , say , Hittite , Phrygian , Minoan , Sumerian , Tocharian , Persian ...
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ancient animal applied bhel bird called caput coined columns comes compounds dheigh dheigh N dheu earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively four French frequent genus gher gives Greek hand head hence horse human imitative Italy John King kleu known Latin letters lists literally live Lord meaning meant nebh Note one's onomen originally perhaps person plant play plek Possibly prefix probably Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape song sound speaks stand ster suer term things tree turn ueid usually whence woman words beginning
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| Title | The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots |
| Author | Joseph Twadell Shipley |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | JHU Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0801867843, 9780801867842 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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