Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)
Oddments: A Miscellany of English Etymologies (Part 3)
Author(s): William SayersSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: English etymology; popular speech
Summary/Abstract: 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
Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 136/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 181-198
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
