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A Dictionary of English Etymology

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A Dictionary of English Etymology
AuthorHensleigh Wedgwood
SubjectEnglish language
Published1859 (Volume 1)
1862 (Volume 2)
1865 (Volume 3)
PublisherTrübner and Company
Media typePrint
OCLC801821
422.03
LC ClassPE1580

A Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language written by Hensleigh Wedgwood and published by Trübner and Company in three volumes from 1859 to 1865 (vol. 1 1859, vol. 2 1862, vol. 3 1865), with a second edition published in 1871.[1]

It was reviewed anonymously[2][3][4] and by Herbert Coleridge.[5]

The second volume was reviewed anonymously,[6][7] by William Dwight Whitney,[8] and by Eduard Müller[9] and Henry Sweet.[10]

References

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  1. ^ Anatoly Liberman, A Bibliography of English Etymology
  2. ^ Anonymous, 1860 The Atlantic Monthly [Boston] 6: 248-54
  3. ^ Anonymous, 1860 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art [London] 10: 117–18.
  4. ^ Anonymous, 1860 "Our English Dictionaries". The Christian Review [Boston] 25: 384–415.
  5. ^ Coleridge, Herbert, 1860. "English Etymology". MacMillan's Magazine [London] 1: 347–53.
  6. ^ Anonymous 1863 [Littell's] The Living Age. [Boston] 76: 542–3
  7. ^ Anonymous 1863 The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art [London] 15: 440–2
  8. ^ Anonmyous (William Dwight Whitney) 1872 North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal 115: 423–8
  9. ^ Eduard Müller 1871 Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland [Leipzig] : 452–3.
  10. ^ Henry, 1872. Academy 3: 218–19.