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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... things are next to each other, they may be friends or opponents. Thus from kom came con, contra, against; and com, together, with. A companion is one with whom you break bread (Latin panem). Country is the land lying against (next to) ...
... things are next to each other, they may be friends or opponents. Thus from kom came con, contra, against; and com, together, with. A companion is one with whom you break bread (Latin panem). Country is the land lying against (next to) ...
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... things must be noted, as by eavesdropping, or discerned through the blundering of Dogberry. Like other good playwrights, Shakespeare makes the title clear within the play. Don Pedro, urging Balthasar to sing (act 2, scene 3), says: Don ...
... things must be noted, as by eavesdropping, or discerned through the blundering of Dogberry. Like other good playwrights, Shakespeare makes the title clear within the play. Don Pedro, urging Balthasar to sing (act 2, scene 3), says: Don ...
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... things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is reproductively isolated from other such groups.” Beyond these specific congenital creatures ...
... things begin with the species, which, for the animal kingdom, is defined as “a group of populations capable of interbreeding, a group that is reproductively isolated from other such groups.” Beyond these specific congenital creatures ...
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... things.” For apple-pie order, see caput. apple cider; apple dumpling. “Coleridge holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumpling. I am not certain but he is right”— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. Although not ...
... things.” For apple-pie order, see caput. apple cider; apple dumpling. “Coleridge holds that a man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumpling. I am not certain but he is right”— Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia. Although not ...
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... things devoted, at first to God, but since usually sacrificed, they shifted to the devil; anathema maranatha is generally deemed the deepest damnation—so regarded in the Tyndale, Wyclif, and King James bibles—but recent scholarship ...
... things devoted, at first to God, but since usually sacrificed, they shifted to the devil; anathema maranatha is generally deemed the deepest damnation—so regarded in the Tyndale, Wyclif, and King James bibles—but recent scholarship ...
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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