WordBook is an English dictionary and thesaurus with hundreds of thousands of entries and definitions with support for synonyms, usage samples, and etymologies. The latter is a great addition that isn ...

Mostly B’s: Your style is HYPERLITERAL. You delight in the pedantry of mathematical culture. This is a language of precision, ...

(Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) André. J. (ed.) (1981) Isidore de Séville: Etymologies. Livre ⅩⅦ, De ...

This paper is based on the research which led to the publication of my “Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic” (EDPC). Its aim is to examine the exclusive Celto-Slavic lexical isoglosses, and to ...

Some elements of that earlier vision remain: Math for English Majors talks about numbers as nouns, verbs as calculations, and ...

Every linguist is familiar with the feeling of delight mixed with vexation when they notice a linguistic connection that had ...

Conlangs, or constructed languages, act to deepen a story's worldbuilding. But what are they and why are they important for ...

It was Isidore of Seville, archbishop and scholar, who consolidated the early profile of the dragon that would become widespread in the Middle Ages through his descriptions in Etymologies (an ...

Michigan, a.k.a. the Great Lake State, comes from the Ojibwe word for “great water.” Other etymologies are less ...

They called the city Pallantium after their mother city in Arcadia; now, however, the Romans call it Palatium, time having ...

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