The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 - 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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... French cheval , English cavalry and chivalry . ( The two foreign words also show the b.v shift : caballo , cheval . ) Also , in Germanic , the k or kh sound may become h : the root kam - er ( meaning vault , vaulted room ) gives us ...
... French cheval , English cavalry and chivalry . ( The two foreign words also show the b.v shift : caballo , cheval . ) Also , in Germanic , the k or kh sound may become h : the root kam - er ( meaning vault , vaulted room ) gives us ...
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... French colonel , each sounded as spelled ; English spells it the French way , but returns to the r and sounds it like the inside of a nut . Greek aster and Latin stella have both come into English , in star and stellar , constellation ...
... French colonel , each sounded as spelled ; English spells it the French way , but returns to the r and sounds it like the inside of a nut . Greek aster and Latin stella have both come into English , in star and stellar , constellation ...
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... French , saint ; and via Dutch , Santa Claus . Or the n may be dropped . In this way the pronominal root nes gave English us , our , ours . Latin retained the n of nes ; hence paternoster , the prayer to our Father ( in heaven ) , and ...
... French , saint ; and via Dutch , Santa Claus . Or the n may be dropped . In this way the pronominal root nes gave English us , our , ours . Latin retained the n of nes ; hence paternoster , the prayer to our Father ( in heaven ) , and ...
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... hear differently : it is enlight- ening as well as amusing to note , say , Japanese or even French , Danish , German , and English echoic words for the crowing of a cock XXV Frequent Word Forms and Transformations LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
... hear differently : it is enlight- ening as well as amusing to note , say , Japanese or even French , Danish , German , and English echoic words for the crowing of a cock XXV Frequent Word Forms and Transformations LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
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... French Ça ne fait rien : It doesn't matter . Without language hopping , too often It's mother love turns out to be smother - love . Under juncture in OED's second supplement , a quotation calls for distinction of nitrate , night rate ...
... French Ça ne fait rien : It doesn't matter . Without language hopping , too often It's mother love turns out to be smother - love . Under juncture in OED's second supplement , a quotation calls for distinction of nitrate , night rate ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
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