To believe what someone says without investigating further. upon my word Indeed; really. [Middle English, from Old English; seewer-inIndo-European roots.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Publi...
Latinindomit(us) untamed (in-in-3+domitus,past participle ofdomāreto subdue, tame, bring under control) +-ābilis-able;compare Latinindomābilis Late Latinindomitābilis 1625–35 in•dom′i•ta•bil′i•ty, in•dom′i•ta•ble•ness,n. ...
[Middle Englishdiccion,a saying, word, from Old French, from Latindictiō, dictiōn-,rhetorical delivery, fromdictus, past participle ofdīcere,to say, speak; seedeik-inIndo-European roots.] dic′tion·aladj. dic′tion·al·lyadv.
The strongest connections between Indo-European and Modern English for this word seem to be via Old English and Germanic so it’s thought that this word was already in use in the British Isles before French or Latin brought their versions from the same root. The oldest example we have of t...
J Hilmarsson - Tocharian and Indo-European Studies : In co-operation with Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands 被引量: 4发表: 1991年 A study in word-formation: The English verbal prefixes fore-and pre-and their German counterparts A study in word-formation, the English verbal prefixes fore...
This fascinating dictionary explores the development of meaning, spelling, and pronunciation of over 25,000 English words. Over 30,000 detailed entries trace words back to their Proto-Germanic or Indo-European roots, and include words borrowed from other languages, as well as the sources and ...
Spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, Chinese differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, lexicon, and written and spoken forms--features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. The first in a three-volume se...
Language Varieties(cap.) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including ancient Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and modern Romance. GreekItalikós,equivalent. toItal(ía)Italy+-ikos-ic LatinItalicus 1555–65 Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: ...
H Marchand - 《Indogermanische Forschungen》 被引量: 24发表: 1959年 Suffixes in word-formation processes in scientific English Scholars have stated the particularities of the language used in specializeddiscourse but little attention has been so far paid to the role derivationalmorphology may play ...
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