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A Dictionary of English Etymology

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A Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language written by Hensleigh Wedgwood and published by Trübner and Company in three volumes from 1859 to 1865 (vol. 1 1859, vol. 2 1862, vol. 3 1865), with a second edition published in 1871.[1]

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It was reviewed anonymously[2][3][4] and by Herbert Coleridge.[5]

The second volume was reviewed anonymously,[6][7] by William Dwight Whitney,[8] and by Eduard Müller[9] and Henry Sweet.[10]


References

  1. Anatoly Liberman, A Bibliography of English Etymology
  2. Anonymous, 1860 The Atlantic Monthly [Boston] 6: 248-54
  3. Anonymous, 1860 "Our English Dictionaries". The Christian Review [Boston] 25: 384–415.
  4. Coleridge, Herbert, 1860. "English Etymology". MacMillan's Magazine [London] 1: 347–53.
  5. Anonymous 1863 [Littell's] The Living Age. [Boston] 76: 542–3
  6. Anonmyous (William Dwight Whitney) 1872 North American Review and Miscellaneous Journal 115: 423–8
  7. Eduard Müller 1871 Literarisches Centralblatt für Deutschland [Leipzig] : 452–3.
  8. Henry, 1872. Academy 3: 218–19.

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