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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Like other good playwrights , Shakespeare makes the title clear within the play . Don Pedro , urging Balthasar to sing ( act 2 , scene 3 ) , says : Don Pedro : ... if thou wilt hold longer argument , Balthasar : Do it in notes .
Like other good playwrights , Shakespeare makes the title clear within the play . Don Pedro , urging Balthasar to sing ( act 2 , scene 3 ) , says : Don Pedro : ... if thou wilt hold longer argument , Balthasar : Do it in notes .
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Bacon as the author of the plays , their arguments based on anagrams deciphered in the dramas . For the title Much Adoe About Nothing , so spelled in the earliest printing , the 1600 Quarto , and in the First Folio of 1623 , is an ...
Bacon as the author of the plays , their arguments based on anagrams deciphered in the dramas . For the title Much Adoe About Nothing , so spelled in the earliest printing , the 1600 Quarto , and in the First Folio of 1623 , is an ...
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In his play The Poetaster Ben Jonson makes John Marston spew out the words retrograde , damp , strenuous , spurious , defunct , clumsy , prorump , obstupefact , ventositous ; the last three died aborning , although obstupefact sounds ...
In his play The Poetaster Ben Jonson makes John Marston spew out the words retrograde , damp , strenuous , spurious , defunct , clumsy , prorump , obstupefact , ventositous ; the last three died aborning , although obstupefact sounds ...
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Imitation has played an incalculable part in word formation . ... Juncture Juncture and pause - the transitions between sounds in speech - are important and , as we have seen under " Folk Etymology , " may play a part in word creation .
Imitation has played an incalculable part in word formation . ... Juncture Juncture and pause - the transitions between sounds in speech - are important and , as we have seen under " Folk Etymology , " may play a part in word creation .
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Other odd shiftings play from tongue to tongue . English Alps is French Alpes . Little change of sound . But with one spelling what we call Paris the French call Paree . English pine ( the tree ) is French pin ( sounded pa - nasalized ) ...
Other odd shiftings play from tongue to tongue . English Alps is French Alpes . Little change of sound . But with one spelling what we call Paris the French call Paree . English pine ( the tree ) is French pin ( sounded pa - nasalized ) ...
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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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