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Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015031030649
Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600089611
Author : Ernest Klein
Publisher : Amsterdam : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:49015002910538
A detailed reference work examining the derivation and meanings of words.
Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English language
ISBN : BSB:BSB11503837
Author : Robert Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000137557
Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : English language
ISBN : EHC:148100003023M
Author : Walter W. Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473666252
Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:24766014
Author : Walter W. Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11503836
Author : Walter William Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:869783658
Author : Skeat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00037399
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780486122878
The compiler of this dictionary of word and phrase origins and history was not only a linguist and a philologist but also a man of culture and wit. When he turned his attention, therefore, to the creation of an etymological dictionary for both specialists and non-specialists, the result was easily the finest such work ever prepared. Weekley's Dictionary is a work of thorough scholarship. It contains one of the largest lists of words and phrases to be found in any singly etymological dictionary — and considerably more material than in the standard concise edition, with fuller quotes and historical discussions. Included are most of the more common words used in English as well as slang, archaic words, such formulas as "I. O. U.," made-up words (such as Carroll's "Jabberwock"), words coined from proper nouns, and so on. In each case, roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Greek or Latin, Old and modern French, Anglo-Indian, etc., are identified; in hundreds of cases, especially odd or amusing listings, earliest known usage is mentioned and sense is indicated in quotations from Dickens, Shakespeare, Chaucer, "Piers Plowman," Defoe, O. Henry, Spenser, Byron, Kipling, and so on, and from contemporary newspapers, translations of the Bible, and dozens of foreign-language authors.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:489904930
Author : T. F. Hoad
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192830988
Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelt? The answers can be found in this essential companion to any popular dictionary. With over 17,000 entries, this is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to word origins available in paperback. Based on The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, the principal authority on the origin and development of English words, it contains a wealth of information about our language and its history.
Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015073612510
This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one. In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, and yet. Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, and skedaddle. Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy, and toad, have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, and Jeep. They are all united by their etymological obscurity. This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language. "Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary." --Bernhard Diensberg, OED consultant, French etymologies Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works, including 16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone.