Open AccessOddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)
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.19.015.11060
Subject(s) - miscellany , variety (cybernetics) , lexis , vocabulary , linguistics , history , lexicographical order , literature , classics , art , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , mathematics , combinatorics
This multi-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.This article concludes a study initiated under the same title in volume 136, issue 1 (2019) of this journal. The present group of words to be examined is drawn from the vocabulary for the harvesting of natural resources