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Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Names, Personal
ISBN : UOM:39015065676416
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547372776
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1922-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Janet C. Hannah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1562162128
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1437826903
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1331180511
Excerpt from The Romance of Names The interpretation of personal names has always had an attraction for the learned and others, but the first attempts to classify and explain our English surnames date, so far as my knowledge goes, from 1605. In that year Verstegan published his Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, which contains chapters on both fontnames and surnames, and about the same time appeared Camden's Remains Concerning Britain, in which the same subjects are treated much more fully. Both of these learned antiquaries make excellent reading, and much curious information may be gleaned from their pages, especially those of Camden, whose position as Clarencieux King-at-Arms gave him exceptional opportunities for genealogical research. From the philological point of view they are of course untrustworthy, though less so than most modern writers on the same subject. About the middle of the nineteenth century, the period of Archbishop Trench and Canon Taylor, began a kind of boom in works of this kind, and books on surnames are now numerous. But of all these industrious compilers one only, Bardsley, can be taken seriously. His Dictionary of English Surnames, published (Oxford Press, 1901) from his notes some years after his death, is invaluable to students. 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.
Author : Robert E. Gard
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207082
“The names of places lie upon the land and tell us where we are or where we have been or where we want to go. And so much more.”—From the introduction Fifty years ago, educator and writer Robert E. Gard traveled across Wisconsin, learning the trivial, controversial, and landmark stories behind how cities, counties, and local places got their names. This volume records the fruits of Gard’s labors in an alphabetical listing of places from every corner of Wisconsin, and the stories behind their often-unusual names. Gard’s work provides an important snapshot of how Wisconsin residents of a bygone era came to understand the names of their towns and home places, many of which can no longer be found on any map. Celebrated rural historian Jerry Apps introduces this reprint of Gard’s work, saying that in “some ways The Romance of Wisconsin Place Names is a reference book, a place where you can go to learn a little more about your home town. But in many ways it is much more than that, for it includes the stories of places throughout the state, submitted by the people who knew them. It is a book where story, people, and place all come together.”
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1034271318
Ernest Weekley (27 April 1865 - 7 May 1954) was a British philologist, best known as the author of a number of works on etymology. His An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921; 850 pages) has been cited as a source by most authors of similar books over the 90 years since it was published. From 1898 to 1938, he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. He married Frieda von Richthofen in 1899. Together they had three children: Charles Montague (born 1900), Elsa Agnès (born 1902) and Barbara Joy (born 1904). Weekley divorced Frieda in 1913 following her elopement with D. H. Lawrence.
Author : Ernest 1865-1954 Weekley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371489246
Author : Peter Nichols Richardson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9062032214
Author : Alethea Chaplin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781473341418
This vintage book contains a detailed and fascinating treatise on language, with a specific focus on the birth, evolution and development of the English language. Highly accessible and full of interesting information, "The Romance of Language" constitutes a must-have for students of linguistics and English teachers alike. Contents include: "The Birth and Growth of Language", "The Mother Language", "Development of Daughter Languages", "Asiatic and European Languages", "Writing and the Alphabet", "The Beginnings of Writing", "Four Stages", "Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic, and Other Scripts", "English in the Making", "The Contributions of Other Tongues towards the Growth of Standard English", "the Growth of English", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete the original artwork and text.
Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781447482260
This vintage book contains a complete handbook on quilting in three parts: “History and Quilt Patches”, “Quilts—Antique and Modern”, and “Quilting and Quilting Designs”. A detailed and fascinating exploration of the history and development of quilting, this is a volume that will appeal to those with an interest in the textile industry, and one that would make for a fantastic addition to any collection. Contents include: “Origin and History of Quilt-making with Photographic Reproduction of Patches”, “The Romance of Patchwork”, “Quilt Names”, “The Quilting Bee”, “The Quilt's Place in Art”, “The Quilt in the Twentieth Century”, “Historical Quilts from Recent Exhibitions”, “Gleanings from Old Scrapbooks”, “How to Make a Quilt”, “Reproductions of Quilt Patches”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on quilting.
Author : Rebecca Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521281393
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in general? In this comprehensive survey Rebecca Posner, a distinguished Romance specialist, examines this group of languages from a wide variety of perspectives. Her analysis combines philological expertise with insights drawn from modern theoretical linguistics, both synchronic and diachronic. She relates linguistic features to historical and sociological factors, and teases out those elements which can be attributed to divergence from a common source and those which indicate convergence towards a common aim. Her discussion is extensively illustrated with new and original data, and an up-to-date and comprehensive bibliography is included. This volume will be an invaluable and authoritative guide for students and specialists alike.
Author : Kristin Harmel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982131906
Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Rémy disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war?
Author : Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249722
Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.