Etymology of 'word' using etymonline com, the Online Etymology Dictionary
Channel: Alex Hartman Adams
Date: 2022-06-06

00:00 - Using Etymonline.com
01:36 - Old English 'word'
02:23 - Proto-Germanic '*wurda'
04:36 - Proto-Indo-European '*were-'
09:19 - Limits of etymology
10:12 - Summary

Online Etymological Dictionary
https://www.etymonline.com/

Indo-European language family tree (chart form)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/IndoEuropeanTree.png

Indo-European language family tree (tree form)
https://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=196


Correction: when I say "mostly the work of one man", I mean the work of compiling this research into dictionary entries on this website. But of course, the work of generations of etymologists went into assembling this information and coming up with the most probable word histories.


Alex Hartman Adams
Linguistics and English Language Consulting
https://ahaling.com