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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.
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 .
Wikiquote is one of few online quotation collections that provides the opportunity for visitors to contribute [6] and the very few which strive to provide exact sources for each quotation as well as corrections of misattributed quotations. Wikiquote pages are cross-linked to articles about the notable personalities on 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.
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 .
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.