Dictionary of Word Origins

Front Cover
Arcade, 1993 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 582 pages
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that trace the origins and history of more than eight thousand English-language words.

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
47
Section 3
66
Section 4
90
Section 5
154
Section 6
191
Section 7
216
Section 8
246
Section 16
360
Section 17
369
Section 18
379
Section 19
424
Section 20
428
Section 21
452
Section 22
518
Section 23
537

Section 9
270
Section 10
292
Section 11
306
Section 12
311
Section 13
315
Section 14
332
Section 15
359
Section 24
548
Section 25
553
Section 26
564
Section 27
579
Section 28
580
Section 29
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