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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... hand, different roots, journeying by diverse routes down the ages, may in our day appear in a single form, and one current word form may even have come to mean its own opposite (for example, cleave). A view of the complexity of language ...
... hand, different roots, journeying by diverse routes down the ages, may in our day appear in a single form, and one current word form may even have come to mean its own opposite (for example, cleave). A view of the complexity of language ...
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... hand) and judo (gentle way). It embraces concise or colorful expressions from any source: Spanish pronto, French détente, Russian sputnik, Latin condominium, Latin etc. (et cetera: and others). This ingathering is a continuing process ...
... hand) and judo (gentle way). It embraces concise or colorful expressions from any source: Spanish pronto, French détente, Russian sputnik, Latin condominium, Latin etc. (et cetera: and others). This ingathering is a continuing process ...
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... hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging on them to bring out their music.” Every actor knows that pauses are as precious as sound. Indeed, without proper pause, speech would be a confusing continuum of noises ...
... hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging on them to bring out their music.” Every actor knows that pauses are as precious as sound. Indeed, without proper pause, speech would be a confusing continuum of noises ...
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... hands in a game; it comes off disentangled. catamountain. A cat-burglar, also called a secondstory man, climbs up the outside of a building, agile as a cat. A Cheshire cat vanishes, all but the grin; first mentioned in 1770, it can be ...
... hands in a game; it comes off disentangled. catamountain. A cat-burglar, also called a secondstory man, climbs up the outside of a building, agile as a cat. A Cheshire cat vanishes, all but the grin; first mentioned in 1770, it can be ...
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... hand dropt he. —Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of March hath perced to the rote ... [So Chaucer starts his pilgrimage to Canterbury.] Freud, in The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life, 8 ...
... hand dropt he. —Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote The droghte of March hath perced to the rote ... [So Chaucer starts his pilgrimage to Canterbury.] Freud, in The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life, 8 ...
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