Etymological Dictionary - 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
• 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.