An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Vol. 1The 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. |
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... : vnlgar W.: West Westm. : Westmorland WGer. : West Germanic Wye. : Wyclif (see p. xx) xool.: xoology * : unrecorded form f:died x : combining with BIBLIOGRAPHY L DICTIONARIES A. MODERN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES New English Dictionary,
... : vnlgar W.: West Westm. : Westmorland WGer. : West Germanic Wye. : Wyclif (see p. xx) xool.: xoology * : unrecorded form f:died x : combining with BIBLIOGRAPHY L DICTIONARIES A. MODERN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARIES New English Dictionary,
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... WGer. ; cf. Du. eischen, Ger. heischen (OHG. eiscon). Mod. form should have hecome ash, esh (cf . ash1), forms found in ME. ^5^ is northern, while ax, from acsian (v.s.) was literary E. till circa 16oo, and is still in gen. dial, use in ...
... WGer. ; cf. Du. eischen, Ger. heischen (OHG. eiscon). Mod. form should have hecome ash, esh (cf . ash1), forms found in ME. ^5^ is northern, while ax, from acsian (v.s.) was literary E. till circa 16oo, and is still in gen. dial, use in ...
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... WGer.; cf. Du. hoom, Ger. houm; cogn. with ON. hathmr, Goth, hagms. To hich (strihe) the heam, i.e. to prove the lighter, is from the heam of a halance. The heams of a ship are transverse, the timhers heing vertical; hence aheam ...
... WGer.; cf. Du. hoom, Ger. houm; cogn. with ON. hathmr, Goth, hagms. To hich (strihe) the heam, i.e. to prove the lighter, is from the heam of a halance. The heams of a ship are transverse, the timhers heing vertical; hence aheam ...
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... WGer.;cf. Du. heer, Ger. har; cogn. with ON. hjdrn. As a Stoch Exchange term it seems to he due to the proverh ahout selling the hear's shin hefore hilling the hear. At the time of the South Sea Buhhle a hear was called a hear-s.sin ...
... WGer.;cf. Du. heer, Ger. har; cogn. with ON. hjdrn. As a Stoch Exchange term it seems to he due to the proverh ahout selling the hear's shin hefore hilling the hear. At the time of the South Sea Buhhle a hear was called a hear-s.sin ...
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... WGer.; ci. Du. Ger. hier; ? cogn. with barley. Scand. has iorms oi ale (q.v.), which was the more usual word up to 1fi cent., beer being then applied esp. to hopped malt liquor. It is not in Chanc. or Piers Plowm. To suchle iools and ...
... WGer.; ci. Du. Ger. hier; ? cogn. with barley. Scand. has iorms oi ale (q.v.), which was the more usual word up to 1fi cent., beer being then applied esp. to hopped malt liquor. It is not in Chanc. or Piers Plowm. To suchle iools and ...
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