М. : Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. — 218 с. — (Библиотека филолога). Содержание: От автора. Введение. Словарный состав современного английского языка как продукт его развития в течение ряда эпох. Иноязычные элементы словарного состава современного английского языка. Происхождение наиболее устойчивого лексического слоя английского языка. Судьба иноязычных заимствований в...
Profile, 2011. — 140 Pages. ISBN: 1846684277 The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world’s most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety...
Эт Сетера, 2003. — 276 c.
Эффектный и эффективный учебник английского языка для быстрого формирования словарного запаса и освоения грамматики, использующий этимологию в качестве основы для изучения. Этот учебник гораздо более эффективен и прост, чем большинство предлагаемых пособий. Понимание морфологии и этимологии слов - не академическая заумь, а возврат к свежести восприятия...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 221 p. — ISBN: 0521790123. English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It initially surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in Old English (c. 450–1066) Middle English (1066–1476), Early Modern English...
Oxford University Press Inc., 2009. — 347 p.
Etymologies appeal to people with a very wide variety of interests and intellectual backgrounds. A very few people, such as myself, spend most of their time researching etymologies. A slightly larger number do so very occasionally. Many, many more people look at etymologies, but have never researched any themselves. Some people will...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 234 p.
This new edition is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English - the words borrowed from the classical languages. It surveys the historical events that define the layers of vocabulary in English, introduces some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis, and is a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 223 pages. ISBN: 0195387074 Written in a funny, charming, and conversational style, Word Origins is the first book to offer a thorough investigation of the history and the science of etymology, making this little-known field accessible to everyone interested in the history of words. Anatoly Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist,...
Exisle, 2010. — 319 p. — ISBN 978-0-908988-91-4. Believe it or not, this is probably the first book to attempt to identify the original sources of some of the English language's most common expressions. We might think we know who first said 'famous for fifteen minutes', 'annus horribilis', 'the cold war' and 'let them eat cake'. It's 'a no brainer', you might say, but Max Cryer...
Icon Books, 2011. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0425260798, 1848313071. The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining...
К.: Радянська школа, 1987. — 230 с.
Справочник представляет собой пособие по этимологии общекорневой лексики в английском, русском и украинском языках. Лексика отобрана на базе школьных учебников. Справочник содержит также необходимые учителю краткие теоретические сведения о лексических соответствиях в рассматриваемых языках. Использование справочника на уроке и во внеклассной...
М.: Изд-во лит. на иностр. яз., 1956. — 218 с. — (Библиотека филолога).
Книга известного отечественного языковеда Н.Н. Амосовой посвящена исследованию источников происхождения лексических единиц английского языка и роли различных словообразовательных процессов в формировании его словарного состава. Исторически обусловленный смешанный характер английской лексики определяет...
Macmillan, 2013. — 36 p.
In 2013, Macmillan Dictionary ran the ‘Stories behind Words’ series on the Macmillan Dictionary Blog.
In the series teachers, authors, linguists and other language enthusiasts were asked to share a personal anecdote about a word (or phrase) that they felt strongly about: a word that had a personal meaning to them.
Many funny, sad and heart-warming...
The Great Courses, 2012. — 277 p. English is changing all around us. We see this in new words such as “bling” and “email,” and from the loss of old forms such as “shall.” It’s a human impulse to play with language and to create new words and meanings—but also to worry about the decay of language. Does text messaging signal the end of pure English”? Why do teenagers pepper their...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1944 (1942, 1943). - 263 с. Отсканированный PDF. Экскурс в историю некоторых английский слов. Написано очень легким и поэтическим языком. Эта книга не претендует звание словаря или энциклопедии, это просто собрание слов которые заинтересовали автора и он захотел поделиться своими находками с читателями. Автор (1891-1974) был британским журналистом и...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 471 pages. — ISBN: 0393240835 Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor...
Dover Publications, 1967. — 974 p. — (Dover Language Guides). — ISBN10: 0486218732, 13 978-0486218731. The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists,...
Dover Publications, 1967. — 958 p. — (Dover Language Guides). — ISBN: 0486218740. The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily...
Published in eJournalUSA by the U.S. Department of State/Bureau of International Information Programs, 24 August 2007. — 34 p.
This edition discusses forces that shape and change everyday English. From cultural and international influences, such as words that come directly, or in a changed form from another language, to popular media, including movies, music and sports, to...
Comic, skeptic, cyber-sleuth, syndicated columnist, and inspired wordsmith, Evan Morris is the Word Detective. He's an etymologist with a sense of humor, a lexicographer with an attitude. Morris's unique approach to language and his distinctive brand of absurdity have found a loyal following of readers curious about everything from soup to nuts-and that means the origins of the...
Adams Media, 2012. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1440542783, ISBN13: 978-1440542787. Did you know that "awful" first originated as a compliment? How about the fact that it was perfectly fine for someone to defecate in their living room? Or that at one time a bully was actually a sweetheart? You may think that these things sound outlandish, but hundreds of years ago, the words "awful,"...
Oxford University Press 2004. — 234 p. — ISBN 0-19-517284-1. 234. Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating...
Galahad, 1993. - 988 pages. Why do people "take 40 winks" and not 50 or 60, or 70? Did someone literally "let the cat out of the bag" at one point in time? Has anyone actually "gone on a wild goose chase"? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this enormous collection, comprised of four bestselling titles: A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs a Tale, Heavens to Betsy!...
London: Constable, 2013. — 116 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-4721-0941-5. What do the following ten words all have in common - haggard, mews, codger, arouse, musket, poltroon, gorge, allure, pounce and turn-tail? All fairly familiar and straightforward words, after a little digging into their histories it turns out that all of them derive from falconry: the adjective haggard described...
Kyle Cathie, 2004. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1856265641, ISBN13: 978-1856265645. Words are the building blocks of language, but their derivations are often stories in themselves. Have you ever wondered why we wear perfume, read magazines, vote for candidates, and speak in jargon? With entries from accolade to zoo, and including such disparate items as blackmail, fiasco, and rigmarole,...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 208 p. — ISBN: 0521790123 English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It is both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment. Stockwell...
American Book Company, 1879. — 138 pages. Содержит упражнения. Elements of the English vocabulary Etymological classes of words Prefixes and suffixes Rules of spelling used in forming derivative words The Latin element Latin prefixes Latin suffixes Directions in the study of Latin derivatives The Greek element Greek prefixes Greek alphabet The Anglo-Saxon element Anglo-Saxon...
David Feldman is the author of the ImponderablesTM series–Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? When Do Fish Sleep?, Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?, and Do Penguins Have Knees?–as well as Who Put The Butter In Butterfly? and How to Win as Just About Everything. He has a master’s degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and consults and lectures on the media....
Mango, 2018. — 111 p. — ISBN10: 1633538508, 13 978-1633538504. Explore the world of names: What is something that literally everything in existence has in common? It all has a name! With The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between, you can learn the origins of these names. From countries and cities to toys and animals to even planets, learn the etymology of interesting...
BBC Books, 2008. — 309 p. — ISBN10: 1846076102. — ISBN13: 978-1846076107 Kick the Bucket and Swing the Cat takes a humorous tour through the fascinating, sometimes tragic, and often surprising history of the English language and its etymology. Author, humorist and word-sleuth Alex Games uncovers the trends, innovations and scandals that have shaped the meanings of our most...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 1107614554. — ISBN13: 978-1107614550. How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically...
Penguin, 2011. Etymology may be boring sometimes. For an ordinary English-language learner it can be even confusing and senseless. But not after you read this book. It makes etymology comprehensible and easy so you want to delve into it even more.
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 415 p. — ISBN 9780691236858. The Bird Name Book is an alphabetical reference book on the origins and meanings of common group bird names, from “accentor” to “zeledonia.” A cornucopia of engaging facts and anecdotes, this superbly researched compendium presents a wealth of incisive entries alongside stunning photos by the author and beautiful...
London: Jonathan Cape, 1944 (1942, 1943). - 263 с.
Экскурс в историю некоторых английский слов. Написано очень легким и поэтическим языком. Эта книга не претендует звание словаря или энциклопедии, это просто собрание слов которые заинтересовали автора и он захотел поделиться своими находками с читателями. Автор (1891-1974) был британским журналистом и писателем. Он так же был...
Sourcebooks, 2015. — 162 p. — ISBN: 9781492626244, ASIN 1492626244. Do you like your garlic Goodfellas thin? Have you ever been part of a carrotmob? Why are bartenders fat washing their spirits (and what does that even mean?) Eatymology demystifies the most fascinating new food words to emerge from today's professional kitchens, food science laboratories, pop culture, the Web,...
St. Martin's Press, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN-10 0312662181; ISBN-13 978-0312662189. English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history, revealing a collision of cultures from the time Caesar first arrived on British shores to the present day. Words to Eat By explores the stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which...
London: Constable, 2013. — 116 p. — ISBN 978-1-4721-0941-5. What do the following ten words all have in common - haggard, mews, codger, arouse, musket, poltroon, gorge, allure, pounce and turn-tail? All fairly familiar and straightforward words, after a little digging into their histories it turns out that all of them derive from falconry: the adjective haggard described an...
Oxford University Press 2004. — 234 p. — ISBN 0-19-517284-1. Do you "know" that posh comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating habits...
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