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- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
- etymology - Where did the term OK Okay come from? - English Language . . .
The Choctaw etymology remained more esoteric common knowledge until Woodrow Wilson's time, and continued to be common knowledge until Read purposefully substituted a cock-and-bull fake etymology for it
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The ‘milker’ etymology is somewhat dubious For one thing, the ‘daughter’ word does not appear to have *-gʰ-, but *-gh₂-, while the milking root has a clear *-gʰ-
- etymology - what are the origins of hi, hey, hello? - English Language . . .
The question of the etymology of hello is a fascinating puzzle According to the the OED it was originally an Americanism derived from the British hallo which has its origins in the Old German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman " However other dictionaries (such as Dictionary com) cite an origin in the Romance word "hola", an
- etymology - “-gram” vs. “-graph” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What’s the difference between the suffixes -gram and -graph? Is there any difference? Even if they are completely synonymous, what’s the difference in etymology? For example, pictograph vs pictog
- etymology - Where does Santa in Santa Claus come from? - English . . .
The name "Santa Claus" comes from a dialect of Dutch, where the word was "Sante Klaas" In this case, it was not a feminine suffix; the word evolved into Santa, which only coincidentally looks like the feminine form of saint in some languages (The Dutch word does come from the same origins as the Spanish and Portuguese, incidentally; most Germanic languages borrowed this Romance word and made
- etymology - Origin of the word cum - English Language Usage Stack . . .
What is the origin of the word cum? I'm trying to find the roots for its prevalent usage, especially in North America
- etymology - Why is the origin of “threshold” uncertain? - English . . .
The folk etymology overdetermines the meaning of hold (to mean "holding in" the thresh), when the earlier forms of the word leave it unclear what precisely the second part of the word is Even in the modern spelling there's an ambiguity between reading it as "thresh + hold" and "thresh + old "
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