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A Thesaurus of English Word Roots PDF

Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used phrase roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s ebook permits you not solely to construct up your passive English vocabulary, leading to phrase recognition data, but in addition provides you the rudiments for growing your energetic English vocabulary, making it potential to deduce the which means of phrases with which you aren’t but acquainted. Your data can now broaden and can accomplish that exponentially as your consciousness of the roots in English phrases and your corresponding skill to decode unfamiliar phrases grows apace. That is the start of a tremendous psychological linguistic library: so take pleasure in!”
In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all phrase roots are listed alphabetically, together with the Greek or Latin phrases from which they derive, along with the roots’ unique meanings. If the present which means of a person root differs from the unique which means, that’s listed in a separate column. Within the examples column, the phrases which comprise the foundation are then listed, beginning with their prefixes, for instance, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting phrases then are adopted by phrases the place the foundation falls behind the phrase, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These phrases are adopted by phrases the place the foundation falls within the center or the top, as in such phrases as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. On this method, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots locations the phrase in as many phrase households as there are components within the phrase.
This work will curiosity linguists and philologists and anybody within the etymological elements of English language.