The origins of English words : a discursive dictionary of Indo-European roots
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
Print Book, English, ©1984
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, ©1984
Wörterbuch
xxxii, 636 pages ; 24 cm
9780801830044, 9780801867842, 0801830044, 0801867843
9465124
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Frequent word forms and transformations
Notes on usage
Bibliography
List of abbreviations
Indo-European roots
Index of English words