[PDF.87hf] The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

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 | #644842 in Books |  The Johns Hopkins University Press |  2001-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.68 x6.00l,2.12 | File type: PDF | 672 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Logophile's delight|By Shemp Duchamp|Anybody interested in words should find this book fascinating. It's arranged like a dictionary, but the entries are (as the title promises) discursive, and reveal unexpected relationships between words. A random example: "heart" derives from the Indo-European "kerd", which also gives rise to cardiac, core, cordial, courageous, accord, accord| ||"Hats off to Joseph Shipley." (William Safire New York Times)

|"A dictionary as invaluable to the philologist as it is a wellspring of delight for any inquisitive person." (Perihelion)

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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 Orig...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots   |  Joseph Twadell Shipley. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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