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About 3000 B.C., our male ancestors led their women-folk on their great migrations in two directions

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Events that have led to English as we know it now 9

 

Latin Roots, Prefixes and Suffixes19

 

Tests30

 

Latin Expressions in English44

 

Familiar, mottoes, the Julian calendar 5 4

 

Standard Latin abbreviations, unusual word derivations57

 

Greek & Latin medical terms60

 

The Olympians69

 

Constellations81

 

Latin and Greek names of some semi-precious stones88

 

Anglo-Saxon words in the English language 92

 

Naked facts – no fun114

 

Word origins___________________________________________________159

 

Etymological bonus_____________________________________________201

 

 

 

 

 

Events which have led to English as we know it now

The words which our pre-historic and distant ancestors spoke are unknown to us, but certain basic ideas held root in forms that are alike, cognate, in the languages which arose in their later migrations to various areas of the world.

From Sanskrit bhratar, Old Slavic brata, to Irish brothair, the words for "brother", are too much alike to be unrelated.

In most of the family languages mer (which appears in English maritime and in the Irish name Murphy) remains; it meant not the ocean but an inland sea. Snow, bee the numerals two to ten; sen for "old"; newo, "new", eu (su), "good"; dys, "bad": these are some of the basic word roots that some members of the human race took along on their migrations in the distant past.

About 3000 B.C., our male ancestors led their women-folk on their great migrations in two directions

The migrations had one branch which moved southward into Persia and India; while the other moved west and northwest, but by two different routes.

One group traveled to the shorelines and the island-blessed waters of the Mediterranean ("Middle of the Earth") Sea, to Greece, Italy, France, and Spain; while the second group went by land into the heart of Europe, following the course of the streams into the inviting northern lands, or through the wooded valleys, with their many lakes, of Middle Europe.


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