This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly
Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the
etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries
published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word
origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An
Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology "by contrast, discusses
all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the
best one.
In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words
traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the
entries are among the most commonly used words in English,
including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever," and
yet." Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk," and
skedaddle." Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy," and toad,"
have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more
recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner," and Jeep." They are
all united by their etymological obscurity.
This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the
methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of
subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a
full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the
source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the
English language.
"Anatoly Liberman is one of the leading scholars in the field of
English etymology. Undoubtedly his work will be an indispensable
tool for the ongoing revision of the etymological component of the
entries in the Oxford English Dictionary,"" --Bernhard Diensberg,
OED" consultant, French etymologies
Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at
theUniversity of Minnesota. He has published many works, including
16 books, most recently Word Origins . . . and How We Know Them:
Etymology for Everyone,"
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