The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001年7月1日 - 672页 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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... King Lear calls the King Nuncle, for Mine Uncle; an umpire was a nonpair (not even), the odd man out, asked to referee. “Full”. Words. as Words ending in the Latin suffix osus: full of, may come into English as bellicose, grandiose ...
... King Lear calls the King Nuncle, for Mine Uncle; an umpire was a nonpair (not even), the odd man out, asked to referee. “Full”. Words. as Words ending in the Latin suffix osus: full of, may come into English as bellicose, grandiose ...
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... king's to ecclesiastical court), they sometimes shifted n from an to the following word, or vice versa—a becoming an—because they did not know, when they wrote it down, to which word to attach the sound. Thus a napron became an apron ...
... king's to ecclesiastical court), they sometimes shifted n from an to the following word, or vice versa—a becoming an—because they did not know, when they wrote it down, to which word to attach the sound. Thus a napron became an apron ...
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... king: “How many kingdoms are there?” “Three, animal, vegetable, and mineral.” “And to which do I belong?” Starry-eyed, she looked at the magnificently garbed stranger and replied: “You belong to the kingdom of God.” Tracing mankind ...
... king: “How many kingdoms are there?” “Three, animal, vegetable, and mineral.” “And to which do I belong?” Starry-eyed, she looked at the magnificently garbed stranger and replied: “You belong to the kingdom of God.” Tracing mankind ...
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... King Solomon and King David led very merry lives, With very many concubines and very many wives, Until old age came creeping, with very many qualms, Then Solomon wrote the Proverbs, and David wrote the Psalms. —James A. Naylor ak: sharp ...
... King Solomon and King David led very merry lives, With very many concubines and very many wives, Until old age came creeping, with very many qualms, Then Solomon wrote the Proverbs, and David wrote the Psalms. —James A. Naylor ak: sharp ...
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... King Turd, the prototype of the theatre of the absurd, was a schoolboy's burlesque of a disliked teacher. John O'Keeffe, called by Hazlitt “the English Molière,” was victim of a student parody, of a song from The Agreeable Surprise ...
... King Turd, the prototype of the theatre of the absurd, was a schoolboy's burlesque of a disliked teacher. John O'Keeffe, called by Hazlitt “the English Molière,” was victim of a student parody, of a song from The Agreeable Surprise ...
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