A Bibliography of English Etymology

Sources and Word List

2009
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Author:

Anatoly Liberman

A broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word’s etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin’s primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign etymons, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

A broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word’s etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin’s primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign etymons, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

This bibliography will certainly remain a stable reference book of English etymology for many years into the future.

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Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia

Distinguished linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman set out the frame for this volume in An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology. Here, Liberman’s landmark scholarship lay the groundwork for his forthcoming multivolume analytic dictionary of the English language. A Bibliography of English Etymology is a broadly conceptualized reference tool that provides source materials for etymological research. For each word’s etymology, there is a bibliographic entry that lists the word origin’s primary sources, specifically, where it was first found in use. Featuring the history of more than 13,000 English words, their cognates, and their foreign etymons, this is a full-fledged compendium of resources indispensable to any scholar of word origins.

Awards

Modern Language Association’s Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography

Anatoly Liberman is professor of Germanic philology at the University of Minnesota. He has published many works including linguistics, etymology, and structuralism.

This bibliography will certainly remain a stable reference book of English etymology for many years into the future.

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Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia

Professor Liberman is not only a distinguished linguistics scholar, but also one of the leading etymologists in the academic world. Undoubtedly, his Bibliography of English Etymology will remain an indispensable research tool to all scholars working in English historical linguistics, in particular in English etymology and even beyond.

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Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis