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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots - 9780618082506

Un libro in lingua di Watkins Calvert (EDT) edito da Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

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Perhaps the most distinctive feature of American Heritage was first published as a separate reference in 1985, and is here updated beyond the analogous appendix of the 2000 fourth edition of the larger dictionary. Typographical innovations now make the entries both more academically rigorous, and clearer to the general readers it targets. Place and personal names, cultural and language notes, and suffixes and prefixes have been added. As previously modern English words are traced back to a reconstructed root of the Indo-European language thought to underlie the languages spoken by over half the world's population. The main entries are alphabetical by Indo-European root; the index lists all the modern English words cited and refers to the root that treats it. A long introductory essay on the language and the people who spoke it, map, a chart of languages descended from Indo- European, and a chart of regular sound correspondences complete the reference. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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