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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... Greek and Latin , and from the latter , the speech of Rome , came the Romance languages , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Romanian , French . Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches , northward turned the ...
... Greek and Latin , and from the latter , the speech of Rome , came the Romance languages , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Romanian , French . Westward through Europe came the Celtic and Germanic branches , northward turned the ...
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... Greek , and Latin , without believing them 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 ...
... Greek , and Latin , without believing them 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 ...
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... Greek euphoria , French garage ( automobile barn ) , Swedish ombudsman , Afrikaans apartheid , Japanese karate ... Greek or Latin roots . Thus anthropology means the study of man . Greek logos ( word , talk , reason , logic ) provides ...
... Greek euphoria , French garage ( automobile barn ) , Swedish ombudsman , Afrikaans apartheid , Japanese karate ... Greek or Latin roots . Thus anthropology means the study of man . Greek logos ( word , talk , reason , logic ) provides ...
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... ( Greek khrusos , gold ) . The word anthem by itself , however , means a hymn of praise or loyalty , such as the national anthem ; from Greek antiphonos ( a voice against ) , it was originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs . In ...
... ( Greek khrusos , gold ) . The word anthem by itself , however , means a hymn of praise or loyalty , such as the national anthem ; from Greek antiphonos ( a voice against ) , it was originally a song chanted alternately by two choirs . In ...
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... Greek , it may lack ana- logues in Celtic , say , and Sanskrit , and thus not permit the extraction of a com- mon root . The various additions to our Indo - European heritage from later or alien sources , however , have not basically ...
... Greek , it may lack ana- logues in Celtic , say , and Sanskrit , and thus not permit the extraction of a com- mon root . The various additions to our Indo - European heritage from later or alien sources , however , have not basically ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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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