Author: William Sewel
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Category : English language
Languages : nl
Pages : 618

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Author: William Sewel
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Category : Dutch language
Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Author: William Sewel
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Author: Walter W. Skeat
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631765X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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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.

Author: Walter William Skeat
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Ernest Weekley
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 862

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Author: Skeat
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Author: Brown University. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: Alexander Marr
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986302
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their own attributes and talents, stemming from an “inborn nature” that included many qualities, not just intelligence. Through ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and things in an attempt to classify their ingenuities and assign professions that were best suited to one’s abilities. Logodaedalus, a prehistory of genius, explores the various ways this language of ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750. By analyzing printed dictionaries and other lexical works across a range of languages—Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, and Dutch—the authors reveal the ways in which significant words produced meaning in history and found expression in natural philosophy, medicine, natural history, mathematics, mechanics, poetics, and artistic theory.

Author: Charles Coffin JEWETT
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Languages : en
Pages : 600

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