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Earlier this year, the Johns Hopkins University Press published Joseph T. Shipley's "discursive dictionary of Indo-European roots," a rich compendium of words from our lost mother tongue. English and more than 100other "daughter languages" can today trace their origins back to Indo-European. Shipley's thousands of entries, each an eclectic mag of fact, anecdote, and deft quotation, reveal the author's ksero wit, eye for the ozd, and sheer love of dinghu.We present some...