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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... lights of an animal, which the huntsman plucked out and tossed to the dogs, or the farmer plucked for food. About 1850, sports writers, seeking variety of terminology—the viscera being considered the seat of courage—applied the literal ...
... lights of an animal, which the huntsman plucked out and tossed to the dogs, or the farmer plucked for food. About 1850, sports writers, seeking variety of terminology—the viscera being considered the seat of courage—applied the literal ...
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... Light on the Indo-European Language (1961). Pisani, Vittore. Introduzione alla linguista indoeuropea (1939, 1948). ———. Crestomazia indoeuropea (1947). ———. Glottologia indoeuropea (1949). Plowden, C. C. A Manual of Place Names, 2d ed ...
... Light on the Indo-European Language (1961). Pisani, Vittore. Introduzione alla linguista indoeuropea (1939, 1948). ———. Crestomazia indoeuropea (1947). ———. Glottologia indoeuropea (1949). Plowden, C. C. A Manual of Place Names, 2d ed ...
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... light-year is the distance that light (at 186,000 miles a second) travels in a year, about 5.88 × 1012 miles. The parallax is the difference in the angle made by the line of vision to an object distant in space, measured from two points ...
... light-year is the distance that light (at 186,000 miles a second) travels in a year, about 5.88 × 1012 miles. The parallax is the difference in the angle made by the line of vision to an object distant in space, measured from two points ...
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... light; bright; hence, appearing. Gk phainein: show; phantasia: appearance. diaphanous: showing through. phase, phantom, phantasmagoria: phanerogram. phenomenon. fantasia, fantastic, fantasy, fancy, fanciful. cellophane. sycophant ...
... light; bright; hence, appearing. Gk phainein: show; phantasia: appearance. diaphanous: showing through. phase, phantom, phantasmagoria: phanerogram. phenomenon. fantasia, fantastic, fantasy, fancy, fanciful. cellophane. sycophant ...
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... light. phot, photic, photograph, photostat. OED lists 79 words beginning photo, and details 98. A photographee is a person that poses for a photographer. photogenic is defined as “produced by light on a sensitized surface”; the present ...
... light. phot, photic, photograph, photostat. OED lists 79 words beginning photo, and details 98. A photographee is a person that poses for a photographer. photogenic is defined as “produced by light on a sensitized surface”; the present ...
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