Open AccessOddments: A miscellany of English etymologies (Part 1)
Author(s) -
William Sayers
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
studia linguistica universatitatis cracoviensis/studia linguistica universitatis iagellonicae cracoviensis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.142
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2083-4624
pISSN - 1897-1059
DOI - 10.4467/20834624sl.19.002.10245
Subject(s) - miscellany , variety (cybernetics) , linguistics , history , lexis , lexicographical order , praxis , literature , art , classics , philosophy , computer science , mathematics , artificial intelligence , combinatorics , epistemology
This three-part study continues an inquiry earlier initiated in these pages into words listed in Oxford English dictionary as still without satisfactory etymologies. Loans from a variety of source languages are reviewed, accompanied by commentary on earlier lexicographical praxis as it relates to various popular registers of English.