About this title: Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13,000 words are traced to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English that was spoken before the advent of writing. In Calvert Watkins?s skilled hands, Proto-Indo-European language and society are rendered as alive and compelling as they must have been six thousand years ago. His introductory essay shows how words in an unrecorded ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2000-09-14
ISBN-13:9780618082506ISBN:0618082506
Description: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition with light shelf wear. Text appears unmarked. No spine creases. Prior owner name on fly. _ read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2000-09-14
ISBN-13:9780618082506ISBN:0618082506
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780618082506ISBN:0618082506
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Description: New. Fully revised and updated, THE AMERICAN HERITAGE(R) DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS remains an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the history of English and its place in the Indo-European language family. More than 13, 000 words are tra... read more
Description: New. Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words. read more
"This book makes excellent toilet reading. Did you know that the words "red" and "worm" share a root? Well duh, cos worms were used to make red dye. It gets better: "guest" and "hostile" and "guess" and "host" also share a root---you never know just who is showing up at your door. Strangely gripping."
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