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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... to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.” He was right: the original speech, the primal Indo-European from which a hundred languages have flowered, was unwritten, and therefore left no.
... to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists.” He was right: the original speech, the primal Indo-European from which a hundred languages have flowered, was unwritten, and therefore left no.
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... perhaps formed from the m.m.m. of the suckling babe, is meter in Greek, mater in Latin, mère in French, Mutter in German (which still capitalizes all its nouns), moder in Danish, mat in Russian, mother in English; it embraces all the ...
... perhaps formed from the m.m.m. of the suckling babe, is meter in Greek, mater in Latin, mère in French, Mutter in German (which still capitalizes all its nouns), moder in Danish, mat in Russian, mother in English; it embraces all the ...
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... perhaps because of its early blending, has continued to welcome into its vocabulary, sometimes with no change, words not only from other branches of Indo-European but also from many other language families around the world. American ...
... perhaps because of its early blending, has continued to welcome into its vocabulary, sometimes with no change, words not only from other branches of Indo-European but also from many other language families around the world. American ...
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... perhaps, were given figurative uses and applications. Thus the language grew with the growth of its makers and users, from nomads to farmers, to the citizen and his civilization; from immediate concerns to general principles, from ...
... perhaps, were given figurative uses and applications. Thus the language grew with the growth of its makers and users, from nomads to farmers, to the citizen and his civilization; from immediate concerns to general principles, from ...
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... (perhaps fashioned by metathesis from Greek krado, a quivering spray on a branch, then a swing—and note the English cradle, the infant's swinging bed) to name the hinge. Hence, anything on which another thing hinges: the cardinal veins ...
... (perhaps fashioned by metathesis from Greek krado, a quivering spray on a branch, then a swing—and note the English cradle, the infant's swinging bed) to name the hinge. Hence, anything on which another thing hinges: the cardinal veins ...
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常见术语和短语
ancient animal applied associated beauty became bird body called coined color columns comes common compounds Dictionary earlier early earth element ending England English especially figuratively folkchanged four French frequent genus gives Greek hand head hence hold horse human imitative Italy John King known land language later Latin leaves letters light lists literally live Lord mark meaning meant mind nature never Note one’s originally perhaps person pictured plant play Possibly prefix probably referred Roman root says sense Shakespeare shape short shortened song sound speaks stand star suggested term things translation tree turn usually whence woman words beginning wrote young