Etymology Websites
English Usage FAQ Home Page
This is an English usage FAQ home page. This page contains links and references of interest to those interested in English usage. There are word origins, phrase origins, netiquette, language history, efl, esl, online dictionaries, and recreational links.
Все словари для ABBYY Lingvo®
Все словари для ABBYY Lingvo® – это самый полный список словарей и энциклопедий когда-либо созданных для оболочки ABBYY Lingvo, а также ссылки на все сайты, с которых только можно скачать данные словари! Имеется и набор программ в помощь будущим создателям словарей! Сайт постоянно обновляется!
Bill Casselman's Words of the World & Canadian Word of the Day:Their Etymologies & General Word Lore at www.billcasselman.com
This site offers unpublished, new etymological columns and word studies by Bill Casselman as well as samples of his 12 books about Canadian words and folk sayings. Also presented are excerpts from his book about the etymology and word lore of medical words.
Viola Owlfeathers Harry-Potter-Kiste
Sprachspielereien, Anspielungen, witzige Details in den Harry-Potter-Büchern. / Puns, allusions, explanations of names and words in Harry Potter.
Indo-European Etymology Dictionary
Etymology Dictionary of Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European Machine Dictionary-Translator
Pandora Word Box
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The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
English obscure words and etymology resources: online dictionary of weird and unusual words, word lists, technical vocabulary aids, lipograms, and word related essays
Health Care Providers - Birth Defects - MedWord
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Surname Database: Last Name Origins
A database of 50,000 surname meanings, containing information on the last name origins and the surnames earliest recordings.
BabyNames.ch: The Baby Names Web Application
Well-researched info about origin and meaning of over 12000 given names from all over the world