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- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Online Etymology Dictionary; Google Books, set date range and sort by date* Google Ngram Viewer; Bill Mullins has a giant list of Full Text Databases; Internet Archive; Project Gutenberg; HathiTrust Digital Library; The Right Rhymes: hop-hop slang defined; Rap Stats by Rap Genius gives an idea of earliest use, but cannot be searched by time
- etymology - When did the a an distinction happen? - English Language . . .
Etymology An is the older form (related to one, cognate to German ein; etc ) An was originally an
- Newest etymology Questions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Questions tagged [etymology] Ask Question Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history
- etymology - Are polite and politics etymologically similar . . .
I read of the words "polite" and "politics" on Wiktionary They originate from Latin word for "smooth" and Greek word for "state", so superficially i concluded they have nothing in common But the
- etymology - Where did the phrase batsh*t crazy come from? - English . . .
The word crazy is a later addition Scanning Google Books I find a handful of references starting from the mid-60s where batshit is clearly just a variation on bullshit (nonsense, rubbish) - which meaning still turns up even in 2001, but it's relatively uncommon now
- etymology - Meaning of -onomy, -ology and -ography - English . . .
The suffix -logy means a branch of learning, or study of a particular subject The suffix -nomy means a system of rules or laws, or body of knowledge of a particular subject
- etymology - Origin of the word cum - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Etymonline explains: cum (verb and noun) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense
- etymology - Why is victuals pronounced vittles? - English Language . . .
It's called a false etymology-- essentially, some scholar along the way missed the intervening few hundred years of French (and, one would suppose, Proto-Romance) usage and assumed it came from the Latin more directly
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