The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsJHU Press, 2001 M07 1 - 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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... meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence man, con man, seeks to win your ...
... meaning is traced to the prolific root gen, to know. Then there is to con, to swindle: they conned him out of his sweepstakes winnings. This is a shortening of confidence game, in which the confidence man, con man, seeks to win your ...
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... meaning the study of. Gynecology is the (medical) study of women. An androgyne is a man with marked characteristics of a woman; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man. We may call either of these a hermaphrodite ...
... meaning the study of. Gynecology is the (medical) study of women. An androgyne is a man with marked characteristics of a woman; a gynander is a woman with marked characteristics of a man. We may call either of these a hermaphrodite ...
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... meaning man, is also found in the name Alexander, meaning protector of men. Philander should mean lover of men; as a verb, it has a livelier sense, from stories and plays that have so named a philanderer. Mr. Antrobus, referring to the ...
... meaning man, is also found in the name Alexander, meaning protector of men. Philander should mean lover of men; as a verb, it has a livelier sense, from stories and plays that have so named a philanderer. Mr. Antrobus, referring to the ...
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... (meaning flow) through Greek and Latin gave English pluvial and plutocracy; from Germanic flug came flow, flee, flight. The k to kh sound shift appears in Spanish caballo, French cheval, English cavalry and chivalry. (The two foreign ...
... (meaning flow) through Greek and Latin gave English pluvial and plutocracy; from Germanic flug came flow, flee, flight. The k to kh sound shift appears in Spanish caballo, French cheval, English cavalry and chivalry. (The two foreign ...
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... meaning, has grown from three roots: medhyo (the golden mean, median); mei (low, nasty); and meino (denote). Confounded. Sounds. Some consonantal sounds are not part of the speech equipment of certain peoples; for example, many languages ...
... meaning, has grown from three roots: medhyo (the golden mean, median); mei (low, nasty); and meino (denote). Confounded. Sounds. Some consonantal sounds are not part of the speech equipment of certain peoples; for example, many languages ...
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