by Louis-Jean Calvet · Editions Payot · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782228886031
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«Histoires de mots» is the etymology essay by Louis-Jean Calvet, published by Editions Payot in 1993 in paperback (217 pages, in French).
The author examines the origin of numerous European words and shows how their evolution reveals relationships between languages. Through concrete cases, the book explains why certain terms resemble each other across languages and how the continent's languages have shared roots throughout history.
The subtitle of the work is «Étymologies européennes» and it belongs to the Documents Payot collection; the volume includes indexes.
For readers interested in linguistics, etymology, and the history of European languages, with curiosity about the origin of words.
Louis-Jean Calvet was a French linguist.
