An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction

by Anatoly Liberman

This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816652724
• ISBN13: 9780816652723
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.8" x 11.3"