An Etymological Dictionary Of The English Language - Brossura

Skeat, Walter W.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486440524 ISBN 13: 9780486440521

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2005

Riassunto

Comprehensive and easy to use, this resource offers numerous cross-references that allow readers to trace English words back to their Indo-European roots. By exhibiting the relationship between English and cognate tongues, it reveals the language's basis in Latin and Greek as well as prior derivations from Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic sources.
Each entry begins with a brief definition and an exact statement of the term's actual (or probable) language of origin. An account of its transition to English usage follows, along with either a few quotations that indicate the period at which the word was adapted, or else the usual Middle-English forms. A helpful Appendix contains a glossary of prefixes, a general accounting of suffixes, a table of Indo-European roots, and vocabularies of homonyms and doublets, in addition to lists showing the distribution of the sources of English.
A standard reference for many years, this volume will prove a practical resource not only to students of comparative philology and of early English, but to everyone with an interest in the origin, history, and development of the English language.

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Practical and reliable, this reference traces English words back to their Indo-European roots. Each entry features a brief definition, identifies the language of origin, and employs a few illustrative quotations. An extensive appendix includes lists of prefixes, suffixes, Indo-European roots, homonyms and doublets, and the distribution of English-language sources.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0486440524
• ISBN 13: 9780486440521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 780