TITLE:
An etymological dictionary of the English language / Walter W. Skeat.
Publication Date:
2005, 1910
Publication Information:
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications,
Physical Description:
780 p.
Subject Term:
Summary:
Comprehensive and easy to use, this resource offers numerous cross-references that allow readers to trace English words back to their Indo-European roots. By exhibiting the relationship between English and cognate tongues, it reveals the language's basis in Latin and Greek as well as prior derivations from Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic sources.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780486440521
General Note:
Originally published: New ed., rev. and enl. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1910.
