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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... stand, present participle stans, stantem, past participle status (taken directly into English), gives us such differing words as stow, store, circumstance, extant, instant, prostitute, state, stationary. Many English words with ant ...
... stand, present participle stans, stantem, past participle status (taken directly into English), gives us such differing words as stow, store, circumstance, extant, instant, prostitute, state, stationary. Many English words with ant ...
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... stand together, whence your and your country's constitution. Lost. Sounds. Roots beginning with s before a consonant may lose the s. The root stern: stiff, comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to ...
... stand together, whence your and your country's constitution. Lost. Sounds. Roots beginning with s before a consonant may lose the s. The root stern: stiff, comes directly into English. But the Germanic form, without the s, applied to ...
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... diplomatic to declare: “Whenever I look at you, time stands still.” The voice with the smile wins. Juncture. Juncture and pause—the transitions between sounds in speech— are important and, as we have seen under “Folk Etymology,”
... diplomatic to declare: “Whenever I look at you, time stands still.” The voice with the smile wins. Juncture. Juncture and pause—the transitions between sounds in speech— are important and, as we have seen under “Folk Etymology,”
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... standing away,” defection, was first used by Wyclif, who died in 1384, but whose body was disinterred in 1415, burned, and thrown into the River Swift. L apt, aptitude, attitude; adapt, adept, inept; apex. L prefix ab: from, away ...
... standing away,” defection, was first used by Wyclif, who died in 1384, but whose body was disinterred in 1415, burned, and thrown into the River Swift. L apt, aptitude, attitude; adapt, adept, inept; apex. L prefix ab: from, away ...
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... stand The jolliest bachelor in the land! Her own remarks, on the way to the scaffold, were more sober: “Commend me to the King, and tell him he is constant in his course of advancing me; from a private gentlewoman he made me a marquise ...
... stand The jolliest bachelor in the land! Her own remarks, on the way to the scaffold, were more sober: “Commend me to the King, and tell him he is constant in his course of advancing me; from a private gentlewoman he made me a marquise ...
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