The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 - 672 Seiten 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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... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Romanian , French . Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches , northward turned the Scandinavian , and eastward spread the Baltic and Slavic , including the Russian . English , which ...
... Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Romanian , French . Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches , northward turned the Scandinavian , and eastward spread the Baltic and Slavic , including the Russian . English , which ...
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... Italian as papa and the papal seat of the pope , and in French as père , it makes the Germanic shift from a p sound to an f sound in the German Vater , Danish fader , and English father . By noting such resemblances and changes , it is ...
... Italian as papa and the papal seat of the pope , and in French as père , it makes the Germanic shift from a p sound to an f sound in the German Vater , Danish fader , and English father . By noting such resemblances and changes , it is ...
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... Italian , to mean with , especially in musical terms , con brio , con amore , and more . Note that the first con means against , the last means with . Yet these two op- posites spring from the one Indo - European root kom , meaning ...
... Italian , to mean with , especially in musical terms , con brio , con amore , and more . Note that the first con means against , the last means with . Yet these two op- posites spring from the one Indo - European root kom , meaning ...
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... Italian punctiglio , meaning a fine point , as in the English punctilio . W. S. Gilbert , for the plot of The Pirates of Penzance , takes advantage of the confusion : nursemaid Ruth apprentices her ward Frederic to a pirate instead of a ...
... Italian punctiglio , meaning a fine point , as in the English punctilio . W. S. Gilbert , for the plot of The Pirates of Penzance , takes advantage of the confusion : nursemaid Ruth apprentices her ward Frederic to a pirate instead of a ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2001 |
The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2001 |
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