The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 - 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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... originally from Scandinavia , but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French , itself an outgrowth of " vulgar " Latin , the speech of the soldiers and traders ( and , later , Christian missionaries ) , who ...
... originally from Scandinavia , but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French , itself an outgrowth of " vulgar " Latin , the speech of the soldiers and traders ( and , later , Christian missionaries ) , who ...
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... originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs . In this sense , we have taken antiphon into English . Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending ; it means not the study of flowers , but a bouquet , a garland , of words ...
... originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs . In this sense , we have taken antiphon into English . Anthology reverses the usual sense of the ending ; it means not the study of flowers , but a bouquet , a garland , of words ...
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... ( originally a spell , still the spell of beauty ) are variants of a single word . From amphora came ampulla and ampoule . A peregrine is a pilgrim . The medieval name for Majorca was Majolica , which still names a style of pottery from ...
... ( originally a spell , still the spell of beauty ) are variants of a single word . From amphora came ampulla and ampoule . A peregrine is a pilgrim . The medieval name for Majorca was Majolica , which still names a style of pottery from ...
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... ( originally sounded torn , as a skirt may be ) . Modified again , via Swedish , it gave English turbot , a spiny flatfish . Similar- ly , the root stene , whence stentorian , also gave us thunder and the Norse god of thunder , Thor ...
... ( originally sounded torn , as a skirt may be ) . Modified again , via Swedish , it gave English turbot , a spiny flatfish . Similar- ly , the root stene , whence stentorian , also gave us thunder and the Norse god of thunder , Thor ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
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