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Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)

Publication date: 30.09.2019

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2019, Volume 136, Issue 3, pp. 181 - 198

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.19.015.11060

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William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
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Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)

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.

This article concludes a study initiated under the same title in volume 136, issue 1 (2019) of this journal. The present group of words to be examined is drawn from the vocabulary for the harvesting of natural resources

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Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)

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Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)

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William Sayers
Cornell University, Ithaca
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