The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 M07 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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... : pitiful, expanded to eleemosune, L eleemosyna: pity. Thence eleemosynary, which sensibly reversed the lengthening process; this seven-syllable adjective was folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal.
... : pitiful, expanded to eleemosune, L eleemosyna: pity. Thence eleemosynary, which sensibly reversed the lengthening process; this seven-syllable adjective was folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal.
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A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal (now monosyllabic) alms. Hawthorne, in The Marble Faun (1860), speaks of “food for the flock of ...
A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal (now monosyllabic) alms. Hawthorne, in The Marble Faun (1860), speaks of “food for the flock of ...
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... Lord, let him be accursed” (anathema). The next word, maranatha, is now translated “Our Lord, come!” andh: bloom. Gk, anther. crysanthemum (Gk khrusos: gold, probably from Semitic). dianthus. Prefix anth, as anthesis: a flower's span of ...
... Lord, let him be accursed” (anathema). The next word, maranatha, is now translated “Our Lord, come!” andh: bloom. Gk, anther. crysanthemum (Gk khrusos: gold, probably from Semitic). dianthus. Prefix anth, as anthesis: a flower's span of ...
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... Lord, we are told, will separate the sheep from the goats—saved souls from lost souls —on Judgment Day (see ghaido, kapr). Apparently content to be in the farmyard are the poultry family; see pou. hen is from the root kan: sing; not ...
... Lord, we are told, will separate the sheep from the goats—saved souls from lost souls —on Judgment Day (see ghaido, kapr). Apparently content to be in the farmyard are the poultry family; see pou. hen is from the root kan: sing; not ...
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... Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. aud: speak, sing; an extension of aus: ear. Gk aoidos: singer. ode, epode. Gk epi: upon; episodos: coming in, originally the entrance of the Greek tragic chorus, which came in singing; E episode ...
... Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. aud: speak, sing; an extension of aus: ear. Gk aoidos: singer. ode, epode. Gk epi: upon; episodos: coming in, originally the entrance of the Greek tragic chorus, which came in singing; E episode ...
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