num_pages: 592
description: Containing more than eight thousand entries, this guide to the history of the English language traces word origins from their Indo-European roots and reveals the links between seemingly unrelated words such as "bacteria" and "imbecile"
language: English
title: Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
titlecomplete: Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words
genres: Language, Dictionaries, History, Writing, Academic, Education, Linguistics, Reference, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 227
publisher: Arcade Publishing