Resources

Etymological Dictionaries

• Online Etymology Dictionary

• Wiktionary

• EtyTree - Etymological tree graphs! See new prototype here.

• Oxford English Dictionary - Subscription required

• Eric Partridge - Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English

• Anatoly Liberman - A Bibliography of English Etymology: Sources and Word List

• Ernest Klein - A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

• Julius Pokorny - Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch

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History of English

• Lexicons of Early Modern English - University of Toronto. Dictionary entries and glosses from early modern and late medieval English writers.

• Early Print - Washington University St. Louis, Text mining tools for English texts printed before 1700

• Anglo-Norman Online Hub - Universities of Aberystwyth and Swansea.

• A Thesaurus of Old English - University of Glasgow

• A Historical Thesaurus of English - University of Glasgow

• Mapping Metaphor - University of Glasgow

• The Mind is a Metaphor - Brad Pasanek, University of Virginia

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Podcasts

• A Way with Words

• Animalogy 

• The History of English Podcast

• Lexicon Valley

• Lingthusiasm

• Vocal Fries

• That's What They Say

• The World in Words

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Ancient Language Resources

• Lexicity - Huge index of ancient language resources!

• Perseus Latin and Greek - Tufts University. Latin and Greek definitions and usage in context

• Logeion - Search several Latin/Greek dictionaries at once

• ND Latin - University of Notre Dame. Latin Dictionary.

• Cambridge Latin Course - Intro to Latin textbook resources

• Indo-European Lexicon - University of Texas

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Books on Etymology

• Philip Durkin - The Oxford Guide to Etymology

• Yakov Malkiel - Etymology

• Anatoly Liberman - Word Origins and How we Know Them: Etymology for Everyone

• Davide Del Bello - Forgotten Paths: Etymology and the Allegorical Mindset

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