Kleins Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

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Название:Kleins Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Автор: Ernest Klein

Издательство: Elsevier Publishing Company

ISBN: 0444409300

Дата издания:1971-01-01

Страниц: 844

Язык:Английский

Формат:PDF

Размер:127.00 MB

Although during the last sixty years philology has attained a high degree of development, looking at the literature available, Etymology appears only to have reached the level of philology at the turn of the century. This dictionary is the first major work of its kind in the 20th century, and as such, embodies the findings of modern philological scholarship. For example, full reference is made to Tocharian, the extinct language rediscovered at the end of the Nineteenth Century which often provides the key to the important transition form between the Old-Indian and the Indo-European group of languages to which English belongs. Several hundred words previously defined as being "of unknown etymology" are fully analyzed. The etymology of words of Semitic origin in the English language is given, the transliteration of Semitic words is based on a concept which renders exactly every consonant, vowel and diacritical sign. Hybrids are not only referred