The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 1.07.2001 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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... columns in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the definition of cell depends upon whether you are thinking of biology, electricity, politics, or prison. A figurative use of a word, quite different from its literal meaning, may continue ...
... columns in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the definition of cell depends upon whether you are thinking of biology, electricity, politics, or prison. A figurative use of a word, quite different from its literal meaning, may continue ...
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... . acrobat: first, performing atiptoe. oxygen (see el 8). oxalic. paroxysm. paragon; mediocre. acropolis: city on the hill. acrophobia. OED has five columns of relevant words beginning acro, as acronym; acrostic (see steigh). acid,
... . acrobat: first, performing atiptoe. oxygen (see el 8). oxalic. paroxysm. paragon; mediocre. acropolis: city on the hill. acrophobia. OED has five columns of relevant words beginning acro, as acronym; acrostic (see steigh). acid,
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... columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous— with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement. Thus, via It, analfabeti; though illiteracy does not ...
... columns of relevant words, from anabaptist to anatropous: “heels over head”; of an inverted plant nucleus, opposite of orthotropous— with 43 more words in its 1972 supplement. Thus, via It, analfabeti; though illiteracy does not ...
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... columns; others are detailed in 18 columns more, from horseback... horse chestnut: a large inedible variety—unlike the French marron, delicious when glazed or creamed—used in the East, said Gerarde in his Herbal (1597), to cure horses ...
... columns; others are detailed in 18 columns more, from horseback... horse chestnut: a large inedible variety—unlike the French marron, delicious when glazed or creamed—used in the East, said Gerarde in his Herbal (1597), to cure horses ...
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... columns to bull, bully, and their compounds. During the days when flogging was a common punishment, a dose of 25 lashes was called a tester; 50, a bob; 75, a bull; and 100, a canary; these names were borrowed from slang terms for money ...
... columns to bull, bully, and their compounds. During the days when flogging was a common punishment, a dose of 25 lashes was called a tester; 50, a bob; 75, a bull; and 100, a canary; these names were borrowed from slang terms for money ...
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