By Charles Blinderman
The vocabulary of biology is made more uncomplicated via understanding the meanings of parts that make up entire phrases. English maintains to undertake phrases from international languages and to construct its vocabulary through inventing new phrases from previous parts. lots of the phrases getting into English each year dwell in technical vocabularies and understanding what the weather suggest prepares scientific scholars and physicians, the practitioner of any Read more...
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INDO-EUROPEAN GENEOLOGY The geneology begins toward the end of the Neolithic Age, about 4000 Be. During the subsequent 2500 years, some of the original IE population dispersed to settle throughout Europe and into the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. The chart omits extinct IE languages and identifies representative modern descendants. 4 Echoism Toponyms Eponyms: From People Eponyms: From Mythologies E tiology, base etio, means the study of sources. In medicine, the word has a narrowed meaning: study of the causes or origins of diseases, adj.
Apollo in his role as Paean was physician to the gods; his union with the nymph Caronis produced Asclepius, god of medicine, in Latin Aesculapius. Thetis, hoping to insure her son's invulnerability, dipped the boy into the river Styx, but she had to hold him by his heel to do that. a. bursa tendinis calcanei (achilles); Achilles tendon, tendo carcaneus (achilles); from achillobursitis and achillodynia owe the names of their afflictions to Thetis's holding her son by the heel. As a boy, Achilles was educated by the centaur Chiron; later, fighting in the Trojan War, he was struck in the heel and limped to hell.
The boxes may detail not only descendants in the biological vocabulary but also in the general vocabulary of our daily talk. This chapter presents two such boxes, for IE la and pneu, both echoic. IE la, talk, mutter This source gave rise to English lull, loon, owl and howl. In Latin. it became an infinitive, ululare, echoic for an owl's hoot. ;; in psychiatry, it refers more narrowly to hysterical crying. IE la also became. through Latin, the word lament; lamentation has a sense of howling to it.
