The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0801830044
ISBN 13
9780801830044
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Publication Year
1984
Publisher
Pages
671
Description
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. - from Amzon
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1
