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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... hold upon the island. The Normans were originally from Scandinavia, but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French, itself an outgrowth of “vulgar” Latin, the speech of the soldiers and traders (and, later ...
... hold upon the island. The Normans were originally from Scandinavia, but during long residence in Normandy had absorbed a dialect of French, itself an outgrowth of “vulgar” Latin, the speech of the soldiers and traders (and, later ...
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... hold longer argument, Do it in notes. Balthasar: Note this before my notes; There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. Don Pedro: Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks—Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. For fear that ...
... hold longer argument, Do it in notes. Balthasar: Note this before my notes; There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. Don Pedro: Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks—Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. For fear that ...
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... hold a cocktail party the next afternoon, “to cerebrate your erection.” With a glance at me, and well-controlled countenance, the new member graciously acquiesced. Even when a mouth can form both sounds, the two often shift. Amsterdam ...
... hold a cocktail party the next afternoon, “to cerebrate your erection.” With a glance at me, and well-controlled countenance, the new member graciously acquiesced. Even when a mouth can form both sounds, the two often shift. Amsterdam ...
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... holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumpling. I am not certain but he is right”— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. Although not originating there, the U.S. has taken this fruit into its folklore: “as American as apple ...
... holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumpling. I am not certain but he is right”— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. Although not originating there, the U.S. has taken this fruit into its folklore: “as American as apple ...
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... hold our whole dinged solar system, Nor ever know 'twas there ... For after one has had about a week of The arguments of friends as well as foes, A star that has no parallax to speak of Conduces to repose. —Bert Leston Taylor, Canopus ...
... hold our whole dinged solar system, Nor ever know 'twas there ... For after one has had about a week of The arguments of friends as well as foes, A star that has no parallax to speak of Conduces to repose. —Bert Leston Taylor, Canopus ...
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