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Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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Total Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book Folk-etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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Download or read book Folk-etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anastasia Castillo
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640705173
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Folk Etymology as a Linguistic Phenomenon written by Anastasia Castillo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 3,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The English language belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. Modern English is regarded as the global lingua franca. The language is widely spoken all over the world and we encounter it in business, science, technology, advertising, travel, and some other domains. However, how could the language originally spoken by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons establish such dominance? The language evolved over centuries and how much the language has change since then is all too clear. Some of the words in present day English date back to Old English, while others come from many of the Indo-European languages. The arrival of other cultures to England had a significant impact on English linguistic history. The influence of Scandinavian, Latin and Romance languages can be clearly seen at all linguistic levels in English language. Historical linguistics is the study of language change. One of its main concerns is the study of the history of words. The discipline that analyses the origin, formation, and development of the word is defined as etymology. It is also a combination of word analysis and the study of literary text across language and time. However, it would not have developed into such an interesting discipline without the linguistic phenomenon of folk etymology. A foreign word that was hard to pronounce would be changed into something that sounded more familiar. Sometimes the change was made unconsciously due to mishearing or misunderstanding. This process frequently occurs when one language borrows a word from another. Since the Norman Conquest the English language was constantly adopting words due to external cultural influences. It is not entirely clear how many words entered English from other languages. But the meaning of some of them has also certainly changed. According to D. Crystal “most of the words in the language have changed their meaning over the past thousand years, their original meanings forgotten”.
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385106664
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Folk-Etymology; a Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : A. Smythe Palmer
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781515335504
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by A. Smythe Palmer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of verbal corruptions and words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy.
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : London, G. Routledge
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Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book The Folk and Their Word-lore written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by London, G. Routledge. This book was released on 1904 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385106656
Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book Folk-Etymology; a Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in Form Or Meaning, by False Derivation Or Mistaken Analogy written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340282028
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Folk-etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Smythe Palmer
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505857290
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by A. Smythe Palmer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is extraordinary indeed that no book should have been written before on the precise lines of this useful and entertaining volume. Perhaps, however, the production of such a compendium of word-lore would have been impossible until the appearance of Murray and Bradley's still uncompleted New English Dictionary, and Wright's Dictionary of Dialect. In any case, Dr. Palmer deserves our gratitude. He has struck, as it seems to us, the right mean between the popular and the scientific. The Old English (why Anglo-Saxon?) forms are quoted with an accuracy which was conspicuous by its absence in earlier attempts to popularize the study of philology, while at the same time the writer has wisely refrained from attempting to trace the relationship between the earlier forms through the ramifications of phonetic law, and has avoided those references to the mysteries of 'Lautverschiebung,' 'Ablaut,' and 'Umlaut,' with which the scientific philologist is prone to damp the ardour of the intelligent but unlearned reader. The central object is well kept in view throughout—i.e. to show how the natural desire for uniformity (combined perhaps with the subtler intellectual pleasure of tracing or inventing analogies) leads to the defacement, often beyond recognition, of such words as are least comprehensible to the vulgar mind—notably of foreign words and names, to which a whole chapter is devoted. One criticism suggests itself, i.e. that in classifying his material the author might have done well to draw a sharper line of demarcation between the half or wholly unconscious blunders of the vulgar, and the elaborate and would-be ingenious guesses of literary men whose linguistic science is not on a par with their zeal for etymology. Chaucer, Fuller and Ruskin are alike sinners in this respect. It is a curious fact that in the realm of philology, and especially of etymology, fools — or shall we rather say, heaven-born enthusiasts? — are so prone to rush in where the cautious students of the German school fear to tread. Were it not so, however, the study of language would be a duller thing than it is, and English readers would have missed the genuine treat that now awaits them in the perusal of Dr. Smythe Palmer's little book. —The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 60 [1905]
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781293388310
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Abram Smythe Palmer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333644109
Total Pages : 710 pages
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Download or read book Folk-Etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy If there's any foreign language [read to them] which can't be explained, I've seen the costers annoyed at it - quite annoyed, says one intimate with their habits in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (vol. I. P. 27 He read to them a portion of a newspaper article in which occurred the words noblesse and qai n'est point noble n'est m'en. I can't tumble to that barrikin [understand that gibberish], said a young fellow, it's a jaw - breaker. Noblesse said another, Blessed if I know what he's up to, and here there was a regular laugh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Folk-etymology written by A. Smythe Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199889015
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Word Origins And How We Know Them written by Anatoly Liberman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, takes the reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Every chapter is packed with dozens of examples of proven word histories, used to illustrate the correct ways to trace the origins of words as well as some of the egregiously bad ways to trace them. He not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. And along the way, the reader is treated to a wealth of fascinating word facts. Did they once have bells in a belfry? No, the original meaning of belfry was siege tower. Are the words isle and island, raven and ravenous, or pan and pantry related etymologically? No, though they look strikingly similar, these words came to English via different routes. Partly a history, partly a how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.
Author : Davide Del Bello
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 081321484X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Paths written by Davide Del Bello and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forgotten Paths, Davide Del Bello draws on the insights of Giambattista Vico and examines exemplary texts from classical, medieval, and Renaissance culture with the intent to trace the links between etymological and allegorical ways of knowing, writing, thinking, and arguing
Author : D. Gary Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191004200
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Lexicogenesis written by D. Gary Miller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Lexicogenesis investigates the processes by which novel words are coined in English, and how they are variously discarded or adopted, and frequently then adapted. Gary Miller looks at the roles of affixation, compounding, clipping, and blending in the history of lexicogenesis, including processes taking place right now. The first four chapters consider English morphology and the recent types of word formation in English: the first introduces the morphological terminology used in the work and the book's theoretical perspectives; chapter 2 discusses productivity and constraints on derivations; chapter 3 describes the basic typology of English compounds; and chapter 4 considers the role of particles in word formation and recent construct types specific to English. Chapters 5 and 6 focus respectively on analogical and imaginative aspects of neologistic creation and the roles of metaphor and metonymy. In chapters 7 and 8 the author considers the influence of folk etymology and tabu, and the cycle of loss of expressivity and its renewal. After outlining the phonological structure of words and its role in word abridgements, he examines the acoustic and perceptual motivation of word forms. He then devotes four chapters to aspects and functions of truncation and to reduplicative and conjunctive formations. In the final chapter he looks at the relationship between core and expressive morphology and the role of punning and other forms of language play, before summarizing his arguments and findings and setting out avenues for future research.
