The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 01/07/2001 - 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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... eleemon: pitiful, expanded to eleemosune, L eleemosyna: pity. Thence eleemosynary, which sensibly reversed the lengthening process; this seven-syllable adjective was folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal.
... eleemon: pitiful, expanded to eleemosune, L eleemosyna: pity. Thence eleemosynary, which sensibly reversed the lengthening process; this seven-syllable adjective was folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal.
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A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal (now monosyllabic) alms. Hawthorne, in The Marble Faun (1860), speaks of “food for the flock of ...
A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley. folkchanged with the Lord High Almoner, who distributes the royal (now monosyllabic) alms. Hawthorne, in The Marble Faun (1860), speaks of “food for the flock of ...
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... folkchanged. The first recorded use of rooster was in 1822; this euphemism, rooster for cock, occurred in the U.S., where prudery preceded, and some say exceeded, that of Victorian England. The rooster, of course, rules the roost (OE ...
... folkchanged. The first recorded use of rooster was in 1822; this euphemism, rooster for cock, occurred in the U.S., where prudery preceded, and some say exceeded, that of Victorian England. The rooster, of course, rules the roost (OE ...
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... folkchanged from an ekename. wax: to grow, opposed to wane; see eu. waist—too often seen to expand. The young Nathaniel Hawthorne (b. 1804) wrote to his mother: “I don't want to be a doctor, and live by men's diseases; nor a minister ...
... folkchanged from an ekename. wax: to grow, opposed to wane; see eu. waist—too often seen to expand. The young Nathaniel Hawthorne (b. 1804) wrote to his mother: “I don't want to be a doctor, and live by men's diseases; nor a minister ...
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... folkchanged from colyflory, L caulis: stem. Phyllis, flowering maiden; sometimes spelled Phillis and associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili). From Milton's use in Lycidas, Herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis ...
... folkchanged from colyflory, L caulis: stem. Phyllis, flowering maiden; sometimes spelled Phillis and associated with Gk philos: love (see bhili). From Milton's use in Lycidas, Herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis ...
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