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Tuesday 03 January 2006

Etymology online

A splendid range of etymological dictionaries can be found on line at the Santa Fe University site. I leave that link there, but I wonder if this is just one of the portals that leads to the Indoeuropean languages project: if you use this link instead, you'll find some essential guidance on how to use these slightly rebarbative databases.

And here's a site (in German) devoted to Etymology itself, the study of word origins.

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 9:52
Edited on: Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:16
Categories: Extra (additions to published work), Links