Canterbury Tales Wc

Literature & Fiction

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY

Skeat, Walter W.

Classics

Oxford University Press

A detailed reference to the definitions, history and etymology of frequently-used primary words

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

History

Traces the origin and development of 12,750 alphabetized words

Concise Etymological Dictionary: of the English Language

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Comprehensive and easy to use, this resource offers numerous cross-references that allow readers to trace English words back to their Indo-European roots. By exhibiting the relationship between English and cognate tongues, it reveals the language's basis in Latin and Greek as well as prior derivations from Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic sources. Each entry begins with a brief definition and an exact statement of the term's actual (or probable) language of origin. An account of its transition to English usage follows, along with either a few quotations that indicate the period at which the word was adapted, or else the usual Middle-English forms. A helpful Appendix contains a glossary of prefixes, a general accounting of suffixes, a table of Indo-European roots, and vocabularies of homonyms and doublets, in addition to lists showing the distribution of the sources of English. A standard reference for many years, this volume will prove a practical resource not only to students of comparative philology and of early English, but to everyone with an interest in the origin, history, and development of the English language.

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Dover Language Guides)

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Dover Publications

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A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words

Mayhew, A. L.

Wentworth Press

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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Glossarial index to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Folcroft Library Editions

Norwood Editions

Clarendon Press Series: Priciples of English Etymology

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