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35,981 English word records · 45,491 etymology sections in this online subset
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024Sh-
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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poncho
An English borrowing from American Spanish whose deeper source remains disputed between Mapuche evidence and a Spanish-internal analysis.
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sauna
The English name of a Finnish steam bath, borrowed from Finnish sauna; its deeper Finnic history is secure enough to reconstruct, while a proposed ancient Germanic source remains actively qualified.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 6
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Is poncho securely Mapuche or Spanish?
It remains disputed. A major English dictionary and Sánchez support Mapuche ancestry; current RAE and Iwasaki advance a Spanish-internal analysis grounded partly in an early 1530 record.
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Was Feind borrowed from English fiend?
No borrowing is established. German Feind continues Old and Middle High German forms; English fiend independently continues Old English fēond. Both branches meet at reconstructed *fi(j)and-.
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Was German Hass borrowed from English hate?
No borrowing is established. German Hass continues Old High German haʒ; English hate continues an Old English noun-and-verb history. The branches meet at reconstructed Germanic material.
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Was German hassen borrowed from English hate?
No borrowing is established. German hassen continues Old and Middle High German forms; English hate follows its own Old English branch. They meet only in reconstructed Germanic material.
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Was Old Norse hatr borrowed from English hate or German Hass?
No such borrowing is established. The historical dictionaries list collateral Germanic forms, and Koch connects them through a reconstructed Germanic noun.
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Was Dutch vijand borrowed from German Feind or English fiend?
No borrowing is established. Old Dutch fīunt / fīant, German Feind, English fiend, Gothic fijands, and the Nordic forms are collateral inherited descendants.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
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scholarly monograph6 CLAIM LINKS
The Lemmatisation of Old English Weak Verbs on a Relational Database
Marta Tío Sáenz / 2019
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗conference paper5 CLAIM LINKS
Türkçe Sözlüklerde Çok Anlamlı Sözlük Birimlerindeki Art Zamanlı Anlam Değişme Olayları ve “Çay” Örneği
Erdoğan Boz / 2012
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗monograph3 CLAIM LINKS
The English Language: A Historical Introduction, second edition
Charles Barber · Joan C. Beal · Philip A. Shaw / 2009
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗institutional lexicon3 CLAIM LINKS
Çay — Güncel Türkçe Sözlük
Türk Dil Kurumu Editors / 2023
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digital corpus2 CLAIM LINKS
English prose works of Richard Rolle: a selection
Carl Horstman, editor · Middle English Compendium Editors / 1896
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗scholarly article1 CLAIM LINKS
I-Umlaut in Old English: A Weak Trigger Effect
Annah Moon / 2011
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source1 CLAIM LINKS
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama
Karel Čapek; translated by Paul Selver / 1923
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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