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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 online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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   An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.

4. Etymological dictionary - Wikipedia

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   An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's , will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.

5. Lists of etymologies - Wikipedia

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   Non-loanwords Proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon; How words have been loaned from various languages to (many) other languages: Australian Aboriginal — African — Afrikaans — Algonquian — Arabic — Bengali — Chinese — Czech — Dutch — Etruscan — French — German — Greek — Hawaiian — Hebrew — Hindi — Hungarian — Irish — Italian — Japanese ...

6. List of English words of Gaulish origin - Wikipedia

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   Online Etymology Dictionary This page was last edited on 20 March 2024, at 17:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

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

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   The American Heritage Dictionary claims that the word is derived from "spiggoty", possibly from the Spanglish phrase "No speak the English". [22] Wog: The cacophemism "wog", for a foreigner or person of colour, is sometimes believed to be an acronym for "wily Oriental gentleman". It is more likely to be a shortening of "golliwog". [23] [24] [25]

8. List of English Latinates of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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   Online Etymology Dictionary. Auguste Brachet, An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Third Edition; Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales; Dictionary.com. Diez, An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages

9. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.The first editor of the dictionary was Charles Talbut Onions, who spent his last twenty years largely devoted to completing the first edition, published in 1966, which treated over 38,000 words and went to press just before his death.