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Great Expressions

Marvin Vanoni

1989

A key to the Peshitta Gospels

Terry C. Falla

1991

A Sanskrit-English dictionary

Ernst Leumann, Carl Cappeller, Monier Monier-Williams

1872

Elements of English etymology

James W. Connor

1879

Short dictionary of classical word origins

Harry Ezekiel Wedeck

1957

An Analysis of derivative words in the English language

Salem Town

1870

Words from the Myths

Isaac Asimov

1961 ★ 5.0

Drama

Brown, Andrew

1962

Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes

Emile Benveniste

1973

Word watch

Anne H. Soukhanov

1995

Latin legacy versus substratum residue

Jerry R. Craddock

1969

Words in sheep's clothing

Mario Pei

1969

Dictionary of English word-roots

Robert W. L. Smith

1966

A glossary of obscure words and phrases in the writings of Shakspeare and his contemporaries, traced etymologically to the ancient language of the British people as spoken before the irruption of the Danes and Saxons

Charles Mackay

1887

Biographies of words

F. Max Müller

1888

Damp Squid

Jeremy Butterfield

2009

An etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language

Alexander Macbain

1896

Diversions of Purley

John Horne Tooke

1786

Medical meanings

William S. Haubrich

1997

McGraw-Hill handbook of English grammar and usage

Mark Lester

2012

Concise Etymological Dictionary

Walter W. Skeat

1882

The secret life of words

Henry Hitchings

2008

Word myths

David Wilton

2004

The Word Detective

Evan Morris

2000

The Coptic element in languages of the Indo-European family

Campbell, John

1872

Et cetera, et cetera

Lewis Thomas

1990

House most high

A. R. George

1993

Ship to shore

Jeans, Peter D.

1993

The American heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots

Calvert Watkins

1985

An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language

John Jamieson

1808

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