A Concise Etymological Dictionary Of The English Language
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Few works have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own language as profoundly as the Reverend Walter W. Skeat's A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. First published in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and refined through multiple editions, this authoritative reference work traces the origins, roots, and historical evolution of thousands of English words — from their earliest known forms in Old English, Latin, Greek, and the Germanic tongues, through to the language as spoken and written in Skeat's own Victorian era. Published under the prestigious Clarendon Press Series at Oxford, this fourth edition — further revised and enriched with an enlarged supplement — stands as a monument of Victorian philological scholarship. Skeat, one of the foremost etymologists of his age and a professor at the University of Cambridge, brings both rigorous academic precision and a genuine passion for linguistic history to every entry. His work laid crucial groundwork for the later Oxford English Dictionary and remains an invaluable resource for scholars, writers, and anyone captivated by the extraordinary journey every word in our language has made through time — will yours be the next mind it illuminates?
Author: Rev. Walter W. Skeat
Format: Hardback
Published: 1897
Genre: Dictionaries
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few works have shaped the English-speaking world's understanding of its own language as profoundly as the Reverend Walter W. Skeat's A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language. First published in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and refined through multiple editions, this authoritative reference work traces the origins, roots, and historical evolution of thousands of English words — from their earliest known forms in Old English, Latin, Greek, and the Germanic tongues, through to the language as spoken and written in Skeat's own Victorian era. Published under the prestigious Clarendon Press Series at Oxford, this fourth edition — further revised and enriched with an enlarged supplement — stands as a monument of Victorian philological scholarship. Skeat, one of the foremost etymologists of his age and a professor at the University of Cambridge, brings both rigorous academic precision and a genuine passion for linguistic history to every entry. His work laid crucial groundwork for the later Oxford English Dictionary and remains an invaluable resource for scholars, writers, and anyone captivated by the extraordinary journey every word in our language has made through time — will yours be the next mind it illuminates?