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Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (Part 1)

Publication date: 04.2019

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, Volume 136, Issue 1, pp. 9-23

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.002.10245

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William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
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Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (Part 1)

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This three-part study continues an inquiry earlier initiated in these pages into words listed in Oxford English dictionary as still without satisfactory etymologies. Loans from a variety of source languages are reviewed, accompanied by commentary on earlier lexicographical praxis as it relates to various popular registers of English.

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