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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... speak scornfully of Franglais, the acceptance of English expressions. And recently the Soviet Union has protested against the “corruption” of Russian by English absorptions. English, on the contrary, welcomes new words that identify new ...
... speak scornfully of Franglais, the acceptance of English expressions. And recently the Soviet Union has protested against the “corruption” of Russian by English absorptions. English, on the contrary, welcomes new words that identify new ...
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... speaks—Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. For fear that the word crotchets will not alert the modern reader, a footnote in the 1952 G. B. Harrison edition notes: “Nothing: a pun on noting.” (We need not make much ado about noting that ...
... speaks—Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. For fear that the word crotchets will not alert the modern reader, a footnote in the 1952 G. B. Harrison edition notes: “Nothing: a pun on noting.” (We need not make much ado about noting that ...
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... speaks of twin sisters Dorothy and Margaret, “known colloquially as Dolly and Molly.” The Spanish officer coronel is French colonel, each sounded as spelled; English spells it the French way, but returns to the r and sounds it like the ...
... speaks of twin sisters Dorothy and Margaret, “known colloquially as Dolly and Molly.” The Spanish officer coronel is French colonel, each sounded as spelled; English spells it the French way, but returns to the r and sounds it like the ...
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... speak a foreign tongue, they have contributed to word formation: from French gentil, pronounced zhontee, has come English jaunty. Other odd shiftings play from tongue to tongue. English Alps is French Alpes. Little change of sound. But ...
... speak a foreign tongue, they have contributed to word formation: from French gentil, pronounced zhontee, has come English jaunty. Other odd shiftings play from tongue to tongue. English Alps is French Alpes. Little change of sound. But ...
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... speak of intestinal fortitude; conversely, one's bowels are loosed with fear. Names of living things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is ...
... speak of intestinal fortitude; conversely, one's bowels are loosed with fear. Names of living things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is ...
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