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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... known world . From Shem came the Semites , Arabs and Jews . The children of Ham went into Egypt and down the African continent . The children of Japheth went into Asia Minor , where Noah's great- grandson Nimrod built the Tower of Babel ...
... known world . From Shem came the Semites , Arabs and Jews . The children of Ham went into Egypt and down the African continent . The children of Japheth went into Asia Minor , where Noah's great- grandson Nimrod built the Tower of Babel ...
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... known as Grimm's Law , established in 1822 by the fairy tale man , Jakob Grimm . Here it is , as applied to English . Words that in early times began with one of the sounds listed below , may later have changed to the next sound to the ...
... known as Grimm's Law , established in 1822 by the fairy tale man , Jakob Grimm . Here it is , as applied to English . Words that in early times began with one of the sounds listed below , may later have changed to the next sound to the ...
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... known colloquially as Dolly and Molly . " The Spanish officer coronel is 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 ...
... known colloquially as Dolly and Molly . " The Spanish officer coronel is 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 ...
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... known is his one - time honorificabilitudinitatibus , with its long alternation of consonants and vowels . Less well known is the fact that of the 17,677 words Shakespeare used in his works , well over 1700 are recorded there for the ...
... known is his one - time honorificabilitudinitatibus , with its long alternation of consonants and vowels . Less well known is the fact that of the 17,677 words Shakespeare used in his works , well over 1700 are recorded there for the ...
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