The Origins of English Words : A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
(2023)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2023
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (36hr., 35 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9798350834550 MWT15812397, 15812397
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Jonathan Todd Ross
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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