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Etymological dictionary   /ˌɛtəməlˈɑdʒəkəl dˈɪkʃənˌɛri/   Listen
Etymological dictionary

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1.
A dictionary giving the historical origins of each word.





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... Early English scholar; has ed. Langland's Piers Plowman, The Lay of Havelock, Barbour's Bruce, and other early English texts, a complete ed. of Chaucer, 6 vols. (1894), and of many of his works separately, and is author of An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Principles of English Etymology, and books on the place-names of the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Herts, ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin


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