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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... Ancient Mariner Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of March hath perced to the rote ... [So Chaucer starts his pilgrimage to Canterbury.] Freud, in The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life, 8, makes one of his ...
... Ancient Mariner Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of March hath perced to the rote ... [So Chaucer starts his pilgrimage to Canterbury.] Freud, in The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life, 8, makes one of his ...
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... words relevant today: “knowing it to the wise to be as great pleasure to hear counsel mixed with wit as to the foolish to have sport mixed with rudeness.” The fights between rival spectators at ancient chariot races are matched by.
... words relevant today: “knowing it to the wise to be as great pleasure to hear counsel mixed with wit as to the foolish to have sport mixed with rudeness.” The fights between rival spectators at ancient chariot races are matched by.
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... ancient chariot races are matched by the mobs at rock concerts, international football games, and other so-called sports of our times. L fluere, fluctum: flow. fluid, fluent; fluctuate. fluorine (see el 9). fluoride. flux; flush ...
... ancient chariot races are matched by the mobs at rock concerts, international football games, and other so-called sports of our times. L fluere, fluctum: flow. fluid, fluent; fluctuate. fluorine (see el 9). fluoride. flux; flush ...
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... ancient excise officer; it has, however, been suggested that this may be from the perennial obscene gesture of “showing the fig” (It fico), as in the sycophant's mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term ...
... ancient excise officer; it has, however, been suggested that this may be from the perennial obscene gesture of “showing the fig” (It fico), as in the sycophant's mind behind his subservient manner. hierophant. epiphany: religious term ...
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... ancient Roman magistrate as a sign of his authority; recalled by Mussolini, it gave English fascist and fascism. The Italian Fascists were organized in Mar. 1919 to oppose Bolshevism; Mussolini took control in Oct. 1922. L fascinum: a ...
... ancient Roman magistrate as a sign of his authority; recalled by Mussolini, it gave English fascist and fascism. The Italian Fascists were organized in Mar. 1919 to oppose Bolshevism; Mussolini took control in Oct. 1922. L fascinum: a ...
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