Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book: Being Some Contributions to English Etymology (Classic Reprint)

Palmer, Abram Smythe

ISBN 10: 1330244451 ISBN 13: 9781330244456

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book: Being Some Contributions to English Etymology

It should be understood that, notwithstanding my acknowledged obligations, many of the deriva tions here adopted are now advanced for the first time, and differ from the conclusions arrived at by previous writers. In most cases, I have adduced copious illustrations from all periods of our litera ture, and confirmatory proofs from the cognate languages, either in the way of verbal parallels or analogous usages.

In a few instances, where the evidence for two conflicting etymologies seemed almost equally balanced, I have stated both sides of the question without prejudice, and left the decision to others.

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Excerpt from Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book: Being Some Contributions to English Etymology

In the following papers I have endeavoured to give a full, and, so far as it lay in my power, an exhaustive, examination of certain words in the English language, the derivations of which, being curious and recondite, present some special features either of interest or of difficulty. With that object I have freely availed myself of the labours of my predecessors in the same field, and have tried to concentrate in one view the results obtained by many independent and scattered investigations. Indeed, all the best authorities that lay within my reach have been had recourse to. I may mention the names of MM. Littre, Scheler, Pictet, and Renan, among French philologists; of Benfey, Diez, Diefenbach, Ebel, Grimm, Ed. Müller, M. Müller, &c., among the German.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330244451
• ISBN 13: 9781330244456
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336