Irish Literary Portraits

Irish Literary Portraits
Author: William Robert Rodgers
Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Word Origins...And How We Know Them

Word Origins...And How We Know Them
Author: Anatoly Liberman
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0195387074

A guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson explains how the origins and history of hundreds of words are determined, discussing such topics as folk etymology, changes of meaning in language history, borrowed words, and the methods of etymology.