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Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (part 2)

Publication date: 17.06.2019

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, Volume 136, Issue 2, pp. 83 - 97

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.008.10603

Authors

William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9406-6649 Orcid
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Oddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (part 2)

Abstract

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

William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
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Cornell University, Ithaca

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