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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots - Couverture rigide

Watkins, Calvert

 
9780395986103: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0395986109 ISBN 13 : 9780395986103
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2000

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 ancient language can be reconstructed and offers a wealth of fascinating information about Proto-Indo-European culture. The dictionary that follows contains nearly 1,350 reconstructed roots, plus two dozen new “Language and Culture” notes that explore interesting sidelights to the etymologies presented in many entries.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0395986109
ISBN 13 
9780395986103
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
192
Éditeur
Watkins Calvert
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Personne responsable
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