The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsThere 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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... King Harold's morale ( shown on the famous Bayeux tapestry , the comet has been traced since 12 B.C. , was last seen in 1910 , and is scheduled to appear again in 1986 ) -after William won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 , the Norman ...
... King Harold's morale ( shown on the famous Bayeux tapestry , the comet has been traced since 12 B.C. , was last seen in 1910 , and is scheduled to appear again in 1986 ) -after William won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 , the Norman ...
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... King Lear calls the King Nuncle , for Mine Uncle ; an umpire was a non - pair ( not even ) , the odd man out , asked to referee . " Full " Words Words ending in the Latin suffix osus : full of , may come into English as bellicose ...
... King Lear calls the King Nuncle , for Mine Uncle ; an umpire was a non - pair ( not even ) , the odd man out , asked to referee . " Full " Words Words ending in the Latin suffix osus : full of , may come into English as bellicose ...
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... king of Rome , about 700 B.C. , some 650 years before Julius Caesar . Caesar's mother was alive when he wrote his account of the Gallic Wars ; in ancient times , the operation was performed only on an already dead woman , to try to save ...
... king of Rome , about 700 B.C. , some 650 years before Julius Caesar . Caesar's mother was alive when he wrote his account of the Gallic Wars ; in ancient times , the operation was performed only on an already dead woman , to try to save ...
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... king's to ecclesiastical court ) , they some- times shifted n from an to the following word , or vice versa - a becoming an - be- cause they did not know , when they wrote it down , to which word to attach the sound . Thus a napron ...
... king's to ecclesiastical court ) , they some- times shifted n from an to the following word , or vice versa - a becoming an - be- cause they did not know , when they wrote it down , to which word to attach the sound . Thus a napron ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
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