The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European RootsThere 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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... note ; cut , cute . We are told that more than half of all English words end in e , s , t , or d . For d , add the past tense of verbs ; and for s , the third person singular present tense of verbs ; the plural and the possessive of ...
... note ; cut , cute . We are told that more than half of all English words end in e , s , t , or d . For d , add the past tense of verbs ; and for s , the third person singular present tense of verbs ; the plural and the possessive of ...
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... notes . Note this before my notes ; There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting . Don Pedro : Why , these are very crotchets that he speaks- Note , notes , forsooth , and nothing . For fear that the word crotchets will not alert ...
... notes . Note this before my notes ; There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting . Don Pedro : Why , these are very crotchets that he speaks- Note , notes , forsooth , and nothing . For fear that the word crotchets will not alert ...
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... note . Within a word , the two letters may be sounded : agnostic , recognize ; one is silent at the end , as in benign , but note malignant . German Knabe : boy , with the k sounded , became English knave , with silent k . Greek u is ...
... note . Within a word , the two letters may be sounded : agnostic , recognize ; one is silent at the end , as in benign , but note malignant . German Knabe : boy , with the k sounded , became English knave , with silent k . Greek u is ...
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... note that I and r are not differentiated . " The Latin suffix alis : per- taining to , Englished in spiritual , punctual , etc. , changed to aris when there was an in the preceding syllable , giving us such words as consular , lunar ...
... note that I and r are not differentiated . " The Latin suffix alis : per- taining to , Englished in spiritual , punctual , etc. , changed to aris when there was an in the preceding syllable , giving us such words as consular , lunar ...
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... it is enlight- ening as well as amusing to note , say , Japanese or even French , Danish , German , and English echoic words for the crowing of a cock XXV Frequent Word Forms and Transformations LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
... it is enlight- ening as well as amusing to note , say , Japanese or even French , Danish , German , and English echoic words for the crowing of a cock XXV Frequent Word Forms and Transformations LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots Joseph Twadell Shipley No preview available - 2001 |
Common terms and phrases
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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