- What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed]
Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
- etymology - Why shrink (of a psychiatrist)? - English Language . . .
I know it originates from "head shrinking", but it doesn't help me a lot to understand the etymology Why are psychiatrists called that? Is it like "my head is swollen [from anguish, misery, stress
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The Choctaw etymology remained more esoteric common knowledge until Woodrow Wilson's time, and continued to be common knowledge until Read purposefully substituted a cock-and-bull fake etymology for it
- etymology - Is holiday derived from holy day? - English Language . . .
The answers are above, but Barnhart's Dictionary of Etymology offers a bit more: Old English had a concurrent open compound halig daeg, found later in Middle English holy day, which became modern English holiday, meaning both a religious festival and a day of recreation This eventually replaced the earlier form haliday, leaving two forms holiday and holy day
- etymology - what are the origins of hi, hey, hello? - English Language . . .
The question of the etymology of hello is a fascinating puzzle According to the the OED it was originally an Americanism derived from the British hallo which has its origins in the Old German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman " However other dictionaries (such as Dictionary com) cite an origin in the Romance word "hola", an
- etymology - Which was the first doctor, M. D. or Ph. D. ? - English . . .
But which of Ph D or M D was first referred to as a doctor? Are you saying that at the year such degree titles letters started to be conferred, those people were already referred to as 'doctor'? And if so, then the answer boils down to which of PhD or MD was the first to be conferred?
- etymology - “-gram” vs. “-graph” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What’s the difference between the suffixes -gram and -graph? Is there any difference? Even if they are completely synonymous, what’s the difference in etymology? For example, pictograph vs pictog
- etymology - Origin of fag (meaning a cigarette in British English . . .
Aside from the offensive meaning, colloquial British English uses the term fag to indicate a cigarette James has gone outside for a fag In my googling, I thought perhaps this originates from one
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