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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

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Wordsworth Editions, 1993 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 633 pages
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.
  

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Always by my bedside, this book is the one that I pick up when I can't decide what to read. Pick a word-any word-look it up and you have a whole history! I love it! Read full review

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Contents

CONCISE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LAN
1
CORRECTIONS AND NOTES
578
SUPPLEMENT
613
Copyright

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The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
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Walter W. Skeat
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allied to A. S. Allied to Gk answers Arab Aryan base beat belonging bend bird blow borrowed Bret called Celtic origin cent cloth cognate Coined colour confused corruption Cotgrave crude form derived dial dimin Doublet erode form fern fish Florio formed with suffix Formerly French frequent Gael Goth hence Hexham Icel imitative Irish Irish and Gael Ital kind later Latin Lith Lithuan Low G Low Latin Lowl means neut Norw Norweg orig Palsgrave Perhaps allied piece plant Port prefix prep Prob prov root Roquefort round Russ Scand sense shew shine ship short sound Span spelling spelt stand stem of pres stone strike strong verb Swed Tent Teut tree twist variant vowel-change VSTA weak verb weakened form whence wind wood word

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Old Frankish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter W. The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology. NY: Harper, 1898: 108. A number of other fanciful origins are sometimes erroneously attributed to ...
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About the author (1993)

Walter William Skeat, English philologist, was born in London on November 21,1835, and educated at King's College School (Wimbledon), Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. His grandsons include the noted palaeographer T. C. Skeat and the stained glass painter Francis Skeat. Skeat's principal achievement was his Etymological English Dictionary. While preparing the dictionary he wrote hundreds of short articles on word origins for the London-based journal: Notes and Queries. Skeat is responsibel for coining the meaning of a "ghost word" --- a meaningless word that came into existence or acceptance, not by being derived through long-standing usage, nor by being coined at need, but only as the result of an error. His other works include: A Concise Dictionary of Middle English (1888), in conjunction with A. L. Mayhew; A Student's Pastime (1896), a volume of essays; The Chaucer Canon (1900); and A Primer of Classical and English Philology (1905). Skeat died in 1912.

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TitleThe Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
Reference Library
Wordsworth Collection
Wordsworth Reference
AuthorWalter-W. Skeat
Editionreprint
PublisherWordsworth Editions, 1993
ISBN1853263117, 9781853263118
Length633 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Etymology
  
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