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2. Etymonline - Wikipedia

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   Etymonline, or Online Etymology Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.

3. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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   Cracker: In the United States, the use of "cracker" as a pejorative term for a white person does not come from the use of bullwhips by whites against slaves in the Atlantic slave trade.

4. Douglas Harper - Wikipedia

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   Douglas A. Harper (born 1948) is an American sociologist and photographer. [1] He is the holder of the Rev. Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Teaching with Technology at Duquesne University , a chair funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation .

5. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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   – Online Etymology Dictionary of English compiled by Douglas Harper – Ancient Greek Etymological Dictionary by H. Frisk – An Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon by Alwin Kloekhorst – Indo-European Etymological Dictionary by S. A. Starostin et al.

6. Talk:Online Etymology Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   They originally had another home and are older than the dictionary. So I can see where "Douglas Harper originally created the online dictionary as a website where he could share some information on books and writers" came from, but that is a description of the personal pages (which bear the label "the Sciolist"), not the etymology dictionary.

7. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities

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   It was edited by Harry Thurston Peck and published 1898 by Harper & Brothers in New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A 1965 reprint runs to 1,750 pages. The dictionary's contents are now in the public domain .

8. List of English words of Brittonic origin - Wikipedia

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   Academia recognises beyond all reasonable doubt "fewer than ten" Brittonic loan-words in English that are neither historic nor obsolete. [2] The following list derives mainly from surveys of possible Brittonic loanwords in English by Richard Coates, Dieter Kastovsky, and D. Gary Miller.

9. List of English words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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   Acciaccatura; Adagio; Allegretto; Allegro; Alto; Andante; Appoggiatura; Aria; Arpeggio; Assolo; Ballerina and prima ballerina; Baritone (from Italian baritono ...