[PDF] Notes On English Etymology eBook

Author : Walter William Skeat
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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A detailed reference to the definitions, history and etymology of frequently-used primary words.

Author : Prof Walter W Skeat
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290587501

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Walter W. Skeat
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853263118

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Walter Skeat (1835-1912) was one of the greatest investigators of the roots of the English language, and his remarkable scholarship was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English Literature. His astonishing detective work into the origins and development of the world's most widely used language provides an unsurpassed guide to its flexibility and richness.

Author : Walter W. Skeat
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2015-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781330620205

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Excerpt from Notes on English Etymology: Chiefly Reprinted From the Transactions of the Philological Society In a former volume, entitled A Students Pastime I reprinted a considerable number of my occasional contributions to 'Notes and Queries' during the years 1866 - 96. In the year 1898 many kind friends were so good as to contribute a sum of money for the purpose of presenting my portrait to Christs College, Cambridge. As somewhat more was contributed than was required for this purpose, a portion of the surplus was made over to me for the purpose of reprinting some more of my rather numerous stray articles without much risk of loss. This act of kind consideration, in conjunction with the good will of the Clarendon Press, is practically responsible for the appearance of the present volume; and these circumstances have suggested the reproduction of some of my articles on English philology which may perhaps be of no great interest to the general public, though I venture to hope that a few serious students of our language may find them useful. It is owing to the same circumstances that the tone of this introduction is more autobiographical than it would otherwise have been, and I gladly take this opportunity of thanking the kind friends who have done me this good turn. How the articles in the present volume came to be written is easily explained. After the appearance of my larger Etymological Dictionary in 1884, it was not long before I discovered that it required both corrections and additions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anatoly Liberman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1452913218

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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."

Author : Hensleigh Wedgwood
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290617109

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.