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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... pictured as asking how to cook a haycock; strictly, one born within sound of Bow bells, London. Two other origins are suggested. Some trace cockney to Fr coquin; rascal; this is itself from Fr coq: cock, imitative of the rooster's call ...
... pictured as asking how to cook a haycock; strictly, one born within sound of Bow bells, London. Two other origins are suggested. Some trace cockney to Fr coquin; rascal; this is itself from Fr coq: cock, imitative of the rooster's call ...
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... pictured as half man, half goat.) florid. Florida. florist, flourish. deflower. cauliflower, folkchanged from colyflory, L caulis: stem. Phyllis, flowering maiden; sometimes spelled Phillis and associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili) ...
... pictured as half man, half goat.) florid. Florida. florist, flourish. deflower. cauliflower, folkchanged from colyflory, L caulis: stem. Phyllis, flowering maiden; sometimes spelled Phillis and associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili) ...
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... pictured by Wordsworth and, in The Virginians, by Thackeray. The farkleberry, also called the fartleberry and the sparkleberry, is the “tree huckleberry.” Among animal berries is the wolfberry. The squawberry is also called osoberry (Sp ...
... pictured by Wordsworth and, in The Virginians, by Thackeray. The farkleberry, also called the fartleberry and the sparkleberry, is the “tree huckleberry.” Among animal berries is the wolfberry. The squawberry is also called osoberry (Sp ...
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... pictured “a ragged starveling canarding on a clarionet.” About 1850 came the use of canard as a hoax, a joke at somebody's expense—borrowed from the Fr vendre des canards à moitié: to half-sell ducks. Also imitative are caw, cawk ...
... pictured “a ragged starveling canarding on a clarionet.” About 1850 came the use of canard as a hoax, a joke at somebody's expense—borrowed from the Fr vendre des canards à moitié: to half-sell ducks. Also imitative are caw, cawk ...
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... pictured as a land of pastoral delights; see es. Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, changed Callisto into a bear, whereupon Zeus set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear; see ger V. Callirrhoe: beautifully flowing, was ...
... pictured as a land of pastoral delights; see es. Zeus's jealous wife, Hera, changed Callisto into a bear, whereupon Zeus set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear; see ger V. Callirrhoe: beautifully flowing, was ...
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