The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots by Joseph T. Shipley

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

Joseph T. Shipley

672 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction reference challenging informative slow-paced
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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 Englis...

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