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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... land lying against (next to) the town. We have far from ended the c.o.n. story. As an abbreviation, con may represent a dozen words: connection, consolidate, consols, conclusion. In law, after a woman's name, con. means wife (Latin ...
... land lying against (next to) the town. We have far from ended the c.o.n. story. As an abbreviation, con may represent a dozen words: connection, consolidate, consols, conclusion. In law, after a woman's name, con. means wife (Latin ...
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... land was Ham), various African families, Eskimo, and more, have all given us good English words. English has borrowed more freely than any other tongue. The French have long objected to the assimilation of foreign terms; they speak ...
... land was Ham), various African families, Eskimo, and more, have all given us good English words. English has borrowed more freely than any other tongue. The French have long objected to the assimilation of foreign terms; they speak ...
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... brother nations, as the second language in virtually every land where it is not the first—a language that increasingly embraces, in its trends and tendrils, all mankind. Frequent Word Forms and Transformations Most of the words we.
... brother nations, as the second language in virtually every land where it is not the first—a language that increasingly embraces, in its trends and tendrils, all mankind. Frequent Word Forms and Transformations Most of the words we.
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... land starting orchards; helped the new land to blossom. Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem In Praise of Johnny Appleseed. love apple: the tomato, Gm Liebesapfel, Fr pomme d'amour, has had a curious history. A member of the nightshade family ...
... land starting orchards; helped the new land to blossom. Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem In Praise of Johnny Appleseed. love apple: the tomato, Gm Liebesapfel, Fr pomme d'amour, has had a curious history. A member of the nightshade family ...
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... land; acreage. God's acre: the cemetery. acorn; first, fruit of the field (agran, changed by association with corn). peregrination: a driving through, as for new pastures; peregrine, whence (l.r shift) pilgrim; also used as proper names ...
... land; acreage. God's acre: the cemetery. acorn; first, fruit of the field (agran, changed by association with corn). peregrination: a driving through, as for new pastures; peregrine, whence (l.r shift) pilgrim; also used as proper names ...
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