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  1. 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 …

  2. etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Please see Title. I'm not specifically referring to which language they came from... but if they come from something else. In other words, do they come from words with other meanings. For example,...

  3. etymology - what are the origins of hi, hey, hello? - English Language ...

    Aug 3, 2014 · 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 …

  4. etymology - “-gram” vs. “-graph” - English Language & Usage Stack …

    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...

  5. etymology - Where does "Santa" in Santa Claus come from? - English ...

    The name "Santa Claus" comes from a dialect of Dutch, where the word was "Sante Klaas". In this case, it was not a feminine suffix; the word evolved into Santa, which only coincidentally looks like the …

  6. etymology - Origin of fag (meaning a cigarette in British English ...

    Dec 1, 2015 · 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...

  7. etymology - Is "holiday" derived from "holy day"? - English Language ...

    Feb 21, 2011 · 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 …

  8. etymology - Why is "victuals" pronounced "vittles"? - English Language ...

    Jul 7, 2011 · It's called a false etymology -- essentially, some scholar along the way missed the intervening few hundred years of French (and, one would suppose, Proto-Romance) usage and …

  9. etymology - "Dysfunctional" vs. "disfunctional" - English Language ...

    Possible Duplicate: Which is the proper spelling: “disfunction” or “dysfunction”? What's the rationale behind dysfunctional being spelled dys- and not dis-?

  10. etymology - Origin of the usage of "late" to mean deceased - English ...

    Apr 12, 2017 · So the word late itself has an interesting etymology. Old English læt, meaning "occurring after the customary or expected time," originally meant "slow, sluggish, slack, lax, negligent," which …