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  2. Online Etymology Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, 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. [1]

  3. 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.

  4. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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    – An Online Etymological Dictionary of the English language 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.

  5. 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.

  6. List of Texas county seat name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Its location in Coleman County, which was named for Robert M. Coleman, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and soldier at the Battle of San Jacinto. Colorado City: Mitchell: Its location on the Colorado River: Columbus: Colorado: Columbus, Ohio: Comanche: Comanche: Its location in Comanche County, which was named for the Comanche ...

  7. List of English words from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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    This article should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.

  8. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Etymology (/ ˌ ɛ t ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee [1]) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. [2]

  9. Harper, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Harper is located in western Gillespie County, about 84 miles (135 km) northwest of San Antonio and 101 miles (163 km) west of Austin.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 56.6 square miles (146.7 km 2), of which 56.6 square miles (146.5 km 2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.14%, is covered by water. [4]