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词源字典—《Word Origins: The Secret Histories of English Words from A to Z》
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中文名: Word Origins: The Secret Histories of English Words from A to Z 作者: John Ayto. 图书分类: 外语 资源格式: PDF 版本: 文字版 出版社: A&C Black. 书号: 0713674989. 发行时间: 2005年 地区: 美国 语言: 英文 内容介绍： The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800 neologisms are added to the English language: acronyms (nimby), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language. This in-depth exploration of the English language covers every nuance and curiosity of this constantly evolving linguistic pastiche. It is estimated that every year 800 neologisms are added to the English language, and include acronyms (NIMBY, Not In My Backyard), blended words (motel), and those taken from foreign languages (savoir-faire). Laid out in an a-to-z format with detailed cross-references and written to appeal equally to students, etymologists, and nonnative speakers, this historical guide is an invaluable resource for this truly global lingua franca. 该字典的涵盖词汇量比较少，但是简单易懂，每个词的介绍都是一片小的段落，逻辑性较强，词义发展解读的跳跃性不大，能比较清晰地了解每个词的词义以及变体怎么发展的，对初步建立词源发展的思路有较好的帮助。 举例如下： See：English has two words see. The older is the verb, ‘perceive visually’ [OE]. Like its Germanic cousins, German sehen, Dutch zien, and Swedish and Danish se, it goes back to a prehistoric *sekhwan, which was descended from an Indo-European base *seq-. This may have been the same *seq- that produced Latin sequī ‘follow’ (source of English sequence, sue, etc), in which case see would denote etymologically ‘follow with the eyes’. See ‘diocese’ originally signified ‘bishop’s throne’. It came via Anglo-Norman se from Vulgar Latin *sedem ‘seat’, descendant of classical Latin sēdem, the accusative case of sēdes ‘seat’. This in turn went back to the Indo- European base *sed- ‘sit’, which also produced English sit. SIGHT; SEAT, SIT 1  1.jpg |
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