A Complete Etymology of the English Language: Containing the Anglo-Saxon, French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Danish, Gothic, Swedish, Gaelic, Italian, ... Accurately Spelled, Accented, and Defined - Softcover
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Excerpt from A Complete Etymology of the English Language: Containing the Anglo-Saxon, French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Danish, Gothic, Swedish, Gaelic, Italian, Latin, and Greek Roots, and the English Words Derived Therefrom Accurately Spelled, Accented, and Defined
Their predecessors shut themselves up with the Latin and Greek only, and ignore a wide field. The selections in Smith's Etymology are made solely with reference to the importance of the words in our own dialect. From whatever source. Thus, anglo-saxon furnishes nearly one-w of our more common words, while French, Dutch, German, Welsh, Danish, Gothic, Swedish, Gaelic, and Italian, divide the rest with Latin and Greek.
The Condensed Etymology exhibits all the excellent features of the parent volume, with less extensive lists, embracing the really essential words only. Both contain valu able introductory exercises to drill the pupil in the perplexing coincidences and general conformation of the language.
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