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My life in etymology

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Liberman A.

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia

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2014

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vol. 19

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issue 1

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“My life in etymology” is a story of a new etymological dictionary of English. The essay tells of how the project began and developed and how work on the dictionary engulfed its originator and became the culmination of his career in philology.

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New etymologies in Thomas O. Lambdin’s An Introduction to the Gothic Language

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Liberman A.

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia

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2012

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vol. 17

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issue 4

185-190

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In 2006 Thomas O. Lambdin brought out An Introduction to the Gothic Language. Every lesson is followed by vocabulary notes that include etymologies. Most of them were borrowed from well-known dictionaries, but a few are new. The paper contains comments on those etymologies.

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A few samples from the A-section of the prospective Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology (ache, akimbo, aloof, and askance)

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Liberman A.

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia

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2014

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vol. 19

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issue 2

PL

Ache, akimbo, and askance are words whose etymology has not been discovered despite numerous attempts to trace their initial form and country of origin. By contrast, the derivation of aloof is known, but it is instructive to watch researchers’ groping in the dark for more than two centuries and sometimes even now looking for a better solution. The etymologies offered below are entries in my prospective dictionary of English etymology. Each of them opens with an abstract of its own.

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My life in etymology

New etymologies in Thomas O. Lambdin’s An Introduction to the Gothic Language

A few samples from the A-section of the prospective Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology (ache, akimbo, aloof, and askance)