The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJohns Hopkins University Press, 1.03.1984 г. - 672 страници 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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... called dogberry , and Dogberry is the foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . The delicious dessert gooseberry fool gets its gooseberry by God's grace and its folly by analogy with the equally ambrosial meal - ender ...
... called dogberry , and Dogberry is the foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . The delicious dessert gooseberry fool gets its gooseberry by God's grace and its folly by analogy with the equally ambrosial meal - ender ...
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... called a can is called a tin . ( 51 ) antimony ( Sb ) . The an is perhaps a variant of Arab al : the ; Gk stimmi , stibi , whence the symbol - the word was used in the late 11th c . by the alchemist Constantinus Africanus of Salerno ...
... called a can is called a tin . ( 51 ) antimony ( Sb ) . The an is perhaps a variant of Arab al : the ; Gk stimmi , stibi , whence the symbol - the word was used in the late 11th c . by the alchemist Constantinus Africanus of Salerno ...
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... called tungstenus . Con- tained in the mineral calcium tungstate , also called Scheelite . Also found in wolfram , whence its symbol . Has the highest melting point of any metal . Is used to harden steel ; and as a filament in electric ...
... called tungstenus . Con- tained in the mineral calcium tungstate , also called Scheelite . Also found in wolfram , whence its symbol . Has the highest melting point of any metal . Is used to harden steel ; and as a filament in electric ...
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