The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 - 672 páginas 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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... whence our fowl . Vogel is German for bird . Latin scintilla came directly into English , giving us scintillate as well ; by metathesis it is also the source of tinsel and stencil . Reduplication A sound may , in early speech , be ...
... whence our fowl . Vogel is German for bird . Latin scintilla came directly into English , giving us scintillate as well ; by metathesis it is also the source of tinsel and stencil . Reduplication A sound may , in early speech , be ...
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... whence sacred , sacer- dotal , also provides sanctify ; via French , saint ; and via Dutch , Santa Claus . Or the n may be dropped . In this way the pronominal root nes gave English us , our , ours . Latin retained the n of nes ; hence ...
... whence sacred , sacer- dotal , also provides sanctify ; via French , saint ; and via Dutch , Santa Claus . Or the n may be dropped . In this way the pronominal root nes gave English us , our , ours . Latin retained the n of nes ; hence ...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley Visualização parcial - 2001 |
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ambhi bhag bhel bher bhes bheu bhili bhreg called caput coined columns compounds deik dekm dheigh N dheigh N 13 dhel dheu eghs element ending English folk etymology folkchanged French genus gerbh ghdhem gher goddess Greek guei guel hence ieug imitative jing kapr kel VIII King kleu ksei ksun kuei kuetuer labh Latin leguh leuk literally Love's Labor's Lost meaning medhi morui nebh nekut neuos oino onomen pilo plek pleu prefix relevant words beginning Roman root sek II seku Shakespeare skeu slang smer sner song sound spek sphei ster steu suer suffix tag II tereq teue tragh uegh ueid ueik ueks uelu uer II uerg uiro W. S. Gilbert whence
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