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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... associated with them. 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 ...
... associated with them. 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 ...
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... associated with L nigellum, diminutive of niger: black, as when burned, came anneal. aier: Gc, early, ere, or. erst (superlative); erstwhile. aig: goat. From the goatskin shield of Athene, aegis. Gk tragos: tragedy: goat song; tragic ...
... associated with L nigellum, diminutive of niger: black, as when burned, came anneal. aier: Gc, early, ere, or. erst (superlative); erstwhile. aig: goat. From the goatskin shield of Athene, aegis. Gk tragos: tragedy: goat song; tragic ...
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... associated ant words take 60 columns. See ne. Dryden translated Ovid's Art of Love, I: To see and to be seen, in heaps they run, Some to undo, and some to be undone. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in A Modest Request, speaks of “lean, hungry ...
... associated ant words take 60 columns. See ne. Dryden translated Ovid's Art of Love, I: To see and to be seen, in heaps they run, Some to undo, and some to be undone. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in A Modest Request, speaks of “lean, hungry ...
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... Associated with Bacchus, Roman god of wine, whence bacchante, bacchanalia. bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous. LL baccalaureatus: wearing the laurel berry, a sign of victory. baccalaureate: the college degree, as won by a bachelor of ...
... Associated with Bacchus, Roman god of wine, whence bacchante, bacchanalia. bacciferous, bacciform, baccivorous. LL baccalaureatus: wearing the laurel berry, a sign of victory. baccalaureate: the college degree, as won by a bachelor of ...
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... associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili). From Milton's use in Lycidas, Herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses, Phillis has come to be used as a name for a pretty waitress. Via OFr girofle from Gk ...
... associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili). From Milton's use in Lycidas, Herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses, Phillis has come to be used as a name for a pretty waitress. Via OFr girofle from Gk ...
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