The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 - 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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... gives us such English words as aphrodisiac . Greek Hermes ( Roman Mercury ) was the patron god of both merchants and ... give us material cupidity , the many erogenous zones , and erotica . Erotetic , however , means pertaining to ques ...
... gives us such English words as aphrodisiac . Greek Hermes ( Roman Mercury ) was the patron god of both merchants and ... give us material cupidity , the many erogenous zones , and erotica . Erotetic , however , means pertaining to ques ...
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... gives birth to hatred . There are too many phobias , but the phil words also abound . Philanthropy , love of man . Philadelphia , ( city of ) brotherly love . Philip , lover of horses ( hippopotamus , river horse ; hippodrome , course ...
... gives birth to hatred . There are too many phobias , but the phil words also abound . Philanthropy , love of man . Philadelphia , ( city of ) brotherly love . Philip , lover of horses ( hippopotamus , river horse ; hippodrome , course ...
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... gives us camera - camera obscura : dark room - and comrade , who shared a room ; but also , via Low Ger- man heben , gives us the vaulted heaven . The sounds d , t , th , have always been confused by careless speakers ; their ...
... gives us camera - camera obscura : dark room - and comrade , who shared a room ; but also , via Low Ger- man heben , gives us the vaulted heaven . The sounds d , t , th , have always been confused by careless speakers ; their ...
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... gives English bellows , drops the vowel to form the English bladder . Where Greek has o , Latin may have e ; as cosmogony , ingenuity . Here , too , the vowel may be dropped ; hence gn , agnostic ; Germanic kn , know . And the changes ...
... gives English bellows , drops the vowel to form the English bladder . Where Greek has o , Latin may have e ; as cosmogony , ingenuity . Here , too , the vowel may be dropped ; hence gn , agnostic ; Germanic kn , know . And the changes ...
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... gives us such differing words as stow , store , circumstance , extant , instant , prostitute , state , stationary . Many English words with ant - infant ( Latin infans , infantem , not speaking ) , substantial , triumphant , contestant ...
... gives us such differing words as stow , store , circumstance , extant , instant , prostitute , state , stationary . Many English words with ant - infant ( Latin infans , infantem , not speaking ) , substantial , triumphant , contestant ...
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