num_pages: 656
description: The pioneering work on the roots &amp; origins of the English language. The remarkable scholarship of Walter W. Skeat (1835-1912) was instrumental in the revival of the great works of early English literature, &amp; he inspired later philologists &amp; lexicographers. Skeat's astonishing detective work into the origins &amp; development of the worlds most widely used language provides an unsurpassed guide to its flexibility &amp; richness. This edition of his larger Etymological Dictionary is not a mere abridgment, but was entirely rewritten by Skeat.
language: English
title: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
titlecomplete: The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology
genres: Dictionaries, Reference, Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 40
publisher: Wordsworth Reference