Sources

Principal Sources

My bookshelf, print and digital, is always growing. Right now, I am primarily indebted to the following sources. They are incredible go-tos, springboards, cross references, and, yes, rabbit holes:

• Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (Ed. C.T. Onions)
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Online Etymology Dictionary (Ed. Douglas Harper)
• Walter W. Skeat’s An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
• Ernest Weekely’s An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
• Joseph E. Shipley’s The Origin of English Words
• Ibid., Dictionary of Word Origins
• Eric Partridge’s A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
• Anatoly Liberman’s An Analytical Dictionary of English Etymology
• Ernest Klein’s A Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language
• Emmauele Baumgartner and Philippe Menard’s Dictionnaire Étymologique
• John C. Traupman’s The New College Latin & English Dictionary
• Liddell & Scott’s An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon