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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... 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 Scandinavian , 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 Scandinavian , and ...
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... 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 , was unwritten ...
... 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 , was unwritten ...
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... ( Latin panem ) . Country is the land lying against ( next to ) the town . We have far from ended the c.o.n. story . As an abbreviation , con may repre- sent a dozen words : connection , consolidate , consols , conclusion . In law , after ...
... ( Latin panem ) . Country is the land lying against ( next to ) the town . We have far from ended the c.o.n. story . As an abbreviation , con may repre- sent a dozen words : connection , consolidate , consols , conclusion . In law , after ...
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... Latin condominium , Latin etc. ( et cetera : and others ) . This in- gathering is a continuing process . New words may also be invented , or formed by combining already existing words or roots . Gas , said its creator , Jan Baptist van ...
... Latin condominium , Latin etc. ( et cetera : and others ) . This in- gathering is a continuing process . New words may also be invented , or formed by combining already existing words or roots . Gas , said its creator , Jan Baptist van ...
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... Latin factum , made ) made against but in imitation of a coveted or currently accepted form . The first counter , a token , springs from Latin computare : to clear , to compute ; the second is from the widespread con , against . Again ...
... Latin factum , made ) made against but in imitation of a coveted or currently accepted form . The first counter , a token , springs from Latin computare : to clear , to compute ; the second is from the widespread con , against . Again ...
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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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