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Walter W Skeat

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Walter W Skeat

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Dover
17 June 2005
Dictionaries; Historical & comparative linguistics; Reference
Series: Dover Language Guides
Comprehensive and easy to use, this resource offers numerous cross-references that allow readers to trace English words back to their Indo-European roots. By exhibiting the relationship between English and cognate tongues, it reveals the language's basis in Latin and Greek as well as prior derivations from Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic sources.

Each entry begins with a brief definition and an exact statement of the term's actual (or probable) language of origin. An account of its transition to English usage follows, along with either a few quotations that indicate the period at which the word was adapted, or else the usual Middle-English forms. A helpful Appendix contains a glossary of prefixes, a general accounting of suffixes, a table of Indo-European roots, and vocabularies of homonyms and doublets, in addition to lists showing the distribution of the sources of English.

A standard reference for many years, this volume will prove a practical resource not only to students of comparative philology and of early English, but to everyone with an interest in the origin, history, and development of the English language.
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Imprint:   Dover
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 277mm,  Width: 213mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   1.711kg
ISBN:   9780486440521
ISBN 10:   0486440524
Series:   Dover Language Guides
Pages:   780
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

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