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ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES FROM THE POPULAR REGISTER (III)

Publication date: 28.07.2017

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2017, Volume 134, Issue 1, pp. 7 - 14

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.17.001.6916

Authors

William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649 Orcid
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ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES FROM THE POPULAR REGISTER (III)

Abstract

Difficulties in tracing the etymology of lexical isolates and loans from other languages are exemplified in the discussion of a gathering of English words previously without satisfactory explanations of origin.

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ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES FROM THE POPULAR REGISTER (III)

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ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES FROM THE POPULAR REGISTER (III)

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649

William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649 Orcid
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Cornell University, Ithaca

Published at: 28.07.2017

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