The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 - 671 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 Word |
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| Title | The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots |
| Author | Joseph Twadell Shipley |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0608008133, 9780608008134 |
| Length | 671 pages |
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