Etymological Dictionaries - Notable Examples

Notable Examples

  • English language
    • Hoad, T.F., The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. Oxford, Oxford University Press (1986).
    • George William Lemon the English etymologist and author of A derivative dictionary of the English language: in two alphabets, tracing the etymology of those English words, that are derived I. From the Greek, and Latin languages; II. From the Saxon, and other Northern tongues. London, Printed for G. Robinson (1783).
    • Eric Partridge, Origins: A short etymological dictionary of Modern English. New York: Greenwich House (1958, 1959, 1961, 1966, 2008).
  • Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Brahui et al.)
  • Finnish
    • Suomen sanojen alkuperä – The Origin of Finnish Words (first volume, A—K 1992; second volume, L—P 1995; third volume, R—Ö 2000), Helsinki, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus and Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.
  • German language
    • Friedrich Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (first edn. 1883, 21st edn. 1975).
  • Indo-Aryan languages
    • Manfred Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (1986–2001)
  • Old Irish
    • Sanas Cormaic, encyclopedic dictionary, 9th or 10th century
    • Joseph Vendryes, Lexique étymologique de l'irlandais ancien (first volume 1959; still incomplete), Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and CNRC Éditions, Paris.
  • Old Prussian
    • Vytautas Mažiulis, Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas (1988–1997), Vilnius.
  • Icelandic language
    • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon, Íslensk orðsifjabók
  • Polish language
    • Aleksander Brückner, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego, first edition, Kraków, Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, 1927 (9th edition, Warsaw, Wiedza Powszechna, 2000).
    • Wiesław Boryś,"Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego", first edition, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2005
  • Portuguese
    • Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa has much etymological information.
  • Proto-Indo-European language
    • Carl Darling Buck, A dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal Indo-European languages, University of Chicago Press, 1949 (paperback edition 1988).
  • Scots language
    • John Jamieson, An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808), revised 1879–97
  • Slovene
    • France Bezlaj "Etimološki slovar slovenskega jezika, SAZU, Lublana 1977" (ISBN 86-11-14125-3), COBISS 10028033
    • Marko Snoj "Slovenski etimološki slovar, Založba Modrijan, Lublana 2003" (ISBN 961-6465-37-6), COBISS 124973312
  • Spanish
    • Guido Gómez de Silva "Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española" (ISBN 968-16-2812-8)
  • Turkish
    • Clauson, Gerard Leslie Makins, Sir; "An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish", Oxford University Press, London, 1972.

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