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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... woman's name , con . means wife ( Latin conjunx , joined ) ; and crim . con . is the legal euphemism for unlawful sexual intercourse . Nor is this all . As a prefix , con- may mean against , as in contradict , control . But in the great ...
... woman's name , con . means wife ( Latin conjunx , joined ) ; and crim . con . is the legal euphemism for unlawful sexual intercourse . Nor is this all . As a prefix , con- may mean against , as in contradict , control . But in the great ...
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... woman ; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man . We may call either of these a hermaphrodite , from a Greek myth : the son of Hermes and Aphrodite , Her- maphroditos , was granted his plea to be forever joined with ...
... woman ; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man . We may call either of these a hermaphrodite , from a Greek myth : the son of Hermes and Aphrodite , Her- maphroditos , was granted his plea to be forever joined with ...
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... woman , gives us gyne- cology . The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as " irregular for hybristic . " Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English , as ius , iuris , justice , jury ; iuvenis ...
... woman , gives us gyne- cology . The Oxford English Dictionary lists hubristic as " irregular for hybristic . " Words beginning with i in Greek or Latin may begin with j or y in English , as ius , iuris , justice , jury ; iuvenis ...
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... woman of Shamlegh tells Kim that , although she is now an unbeliever , she once was a Ker - listian ( Christian ) . Even the sometimes humorous pun slips into the sound story : pun is shortened from the earlier pundigrion , from the ...
... woman of Shamlegh tells Kim that , although she is now an unbeliever , she once was a Ker - listian ( Christian ) . Even the sometimes humorous pun slips into the sound story : pun is shortened from the earlier pundigrion , from the ...
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... woman , to try to save her unborn child . ) Mastectomy is the removal of a breast ; orchidectomy , of a testicle ( orchis , orchidem ; the flower named from the shape of the root - bulb ) . Phle- botomy is bloodletting , cutting a vein ...
... woman , to try to save her unborn child . ) Mastectomy is the removal of a breast ; orchidectomy , of a testicle ( orchis , orchidem ; the flower named from the shape of the root - bulb ) . Phle- botomy is bloodletting , cutting a vein ...
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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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Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing Michael Winkelman Pré-visualização indisponível - 2000 |
The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story John T. Irwin Pré-visualização limitada - 1994 |