Timeline for What are some good sites for researching etymology?
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| Aug 26, 2023 at 18:06 | comment | added | John Lawler | The University of Michigan version of OED V.2 will give you every example sentence that a given lemma occurs in (often more than 10,000 for common words), all dated, with source, in HTML for easy sorting. Wow. But only accessible if you have a umich.edu account, alas. | |
| Nov 8, 2011 at 13:55 | comment | added | PLL | +1 again for the OED. Many public libraries also have OED access, depending on where you live. | |
| Sep 9, 2010 at 0:57 | comment | added | Charlie | +! for OED, my absolute favorite–still pricy, good note on uni access | |
| Sep 8, 2010 at 18:57 | vote | accept | J.T. Grimes | ||
| Sep 7, 2010 at 19:30 | comment | added | Dan | All great suggestions. In my experience a lot of phrase or word etymologies will appear in one source but won't appear in another or vice versa, so my favorite method is still to just google each one and include the word etymology. | |
| Sep 7, 2010 at 18:50 | history | edited | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 7, 2010 at 18:44 | history | answered | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |