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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... comes the term psychology. Psyche (breath, soul) was briefly the mate of the child-god (not of love, as is commonly said, but of desire) Greek Eros (Roman Cupid): these names give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and ...
... comes the term psychology. Psyche (breath, soul) was briefly the mate of the child-god (not of love, as is commonly said, but of desire) Greek Eros (Roman Cupid): these names give us material cupidity, the many erogenous zones, and ...
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... come unchanged into English, meaning the organ of a flower that secretes its pollen. Anth or anthem occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of numerous flower names. Polyanthus names the primrose family-but polyandrous means having more ...
... come unchanged into English, meaning the organ of a flower that secretes its pollen. Anth or anthem occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of numerous flower names. Polyanthus names the primrose family-but polyandrous means having more ...
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... comes trailing at twenty-fourth. Apparently we are not especially egotistical. Consonant. Shiftings. Many of the ... come to us in words along the Mediterranean route; the change, via the Germanic movement. Thus the root pleu (meaning flow) ...
... comes trailing at twenty-fourth. Apparently we are not especially egotistical. Consonant. Shiftings. Many of the ... come to us in words along the Mediterranean route; the change, via the Germanic movement. Thus the root pleu (meaning flow) ...
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... come into English, in star and stellar, constellation and astrology— which may prophesy disaster, the friendly stars turned away. These l.r alternations are found “from China to Peru”; they not only occur on every continent but recur in ...
... come into English, in star and stellar, constellation and astrology— which may prophesy disaster, the friendly stars turned away. These l.r alternations are found “from China to Peru”; they not only occur on every continent but recur in ...
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... come from a Latin present participle. As a prefix, however, ant may come from either ante, before (anticipate, antediluvian) or anti, against (antagonist, antimacassar: protection on chair against hair oil, which in Victorian days was ...
... come from a Latin present participle. As a prefix, however, ant may come from either ante, before (anticipate, antediluvian) or anti, against (antagonist, antimacassar: protection on chair against hair oil, which in Victorian days was ...
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