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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... nature; these have, when necessary, been transformed to fit the pattern of our speech. A bird named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al Rashid, of the Arabian Nights, is Aaron the Upright) became ...
... nature; these have, when necessary, been transformed to fit the pattern of our speech. A bird named in Arabic al qadus (al is Arabic for the: the famous caliph Harun al Rashid, of the Arabian Nights, is Aaron the Upright) became ...
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... (natural: justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude; theological: faith, hope, charity), which swing open the doors of paradise. And the members of the Catholic College of Cardinals, who choose one of their number as representative of God ...
... (natural: justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude; theological: faith, hope, charity), which swing open the doors of paradise. And the members of the Catholic College of Cardinals, who choose one of their number as representative of God ...
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... nature of the apple Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, a bit of which stuck in the throat of her man, still a sign of the first sin, the Adam's apple —actually, the projecting cartilage of the larynx. “In Adam's fall We sinned all” ran the ...
... nature of the apple Eve ate in the Garden of Eden, a bit of which stuck in the throat of her man, still a sign of the first sin, the Adam's apple —actually, the projecting cartilage of the larynx. “In Adam's fall We sinned all” ran the ...
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... nature, had a man's head and torso; a goat's ears, horns, and (two) legs. “The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”—Horace Walpole, letter of 16 Aug. 1776. (In 1775 he had written: “By the waters of ...
... nature, had a man's head and torso; a goat's ears, horns, and (two) legs. “The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”—Horace Walpole, letter of 16 Aug. 1776. (In 1775 he had written: “By the waters of ...
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... nature.” In Swift's Directions to Servants (1745), a maid complains about the need for a dank dark cupboard because milady disdains going into the garden “to pluck a rose.” Yesterday's facetious euphemism was “I have to see a man about ...
... nature.” In Swift's Directions to Servants (1745), a maid complains about the need for a dank dark cupboard because milady disdains going into the garden “to pluck a rose.” Yesterday's facetious euphemism was “I have to see a man about ...
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