Robert Claiborne gives readers a short history of the English language to show how most of the words we use today evolved from a single taproot language called

English from the Roots Up teaches 100 of the most-used Greek and Latin root words. It will help your child build vocabulary and comprehension, as well as figure

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstru

Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his for

Presents an overview of the development of the English language and examines the formation of words especially from Greek and Latin roots. Also discusses defini