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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... tree; Shakespeare is truly Old English, for the earliest recorded fellow of that ilk, William Sakspere of Clopton, who died in 1248, was hanged for robbery. The family prestige had been given luster by the only Englishman to become pope ...
... tree; Shakespeare is truly Old English, for the earliest recorded fellow of that ilk, William Sakspere of Clopton, who died in 1248, was hanged for robbery. The family prestige had been given luster by the only Englishman to become pope ...
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... tree. In the long growth of English, the language has taken many words from tongues outside the Indo-European spread. There have been perhaps ten thousand languages since humankind advanced from grunts to words. Most of these have been ...
... tree. In the long growth of English, the language has taken many words from tongues outside the Indo-European spread. There have been perhaps ten thousand languages since humankind advanced from grunts to words. Most of these have been ...
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... Provençal Prov Rom Romanic Rum Rumanian Russ Russian Scand Scandinavian Scot Scots SCr Serbo-Croatian Sem Semitic Skr Sanskrit Slav Slavic Sp Spanish Swedish Sw A abel: originally, fruit of a tree. Gc, apple. dapple,
... Provençal Prov Rom Romanic Rum Rumanian Russ Russian Scand Scandinavian Scot Scots SCr Serbo-Croatian Sem Semitic Skr Sanskrit Slav Slavic Sp Spanish Swedish Sw A abel: originally, fruit of a tree. Gc, apple. dapple,
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... tree. Gc, apple. dapple, from the varied color of the early fruit skin. A colorful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins begins: “Glory be to God for dappled things.” For apple-pie order, see caput. apple cider; apple dumpling. “Coleridge holds ...
... tree. Gc, apple. dapple, from the varied color of the early fruit skin. A colorful poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins begins: “Glory be to God for dappled things.” For apple-pie order, see caput. apple cider; apple dumpling. “Coleridge holds ...
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... tree fruit. Hence there remains question as to the exact nature of the apple Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, a bit of which stuck in the throat of her man, still a sign of the first sin, the Adam's apple —actually, the projecting ...
... tree fruit. Hence there remains question as to the exact nature of the apple Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, a bit of which stuck in the throat of her man, still a sign of the first sin, the Adam's apple —actually, the projecting ...
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