[B-Greek] Etymological Dictionaries on-line

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Oct 26 06:23:56 EST 2003


List-members may be interested to know that Indo-European etymological
dictionaries are accessible at the University of Leiden:

http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/ied/index2.html

In particular, those working in ancient Greek may be glad to have Frisk's
Griechisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch accessible at (watch out for
word-wrap):

http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bin/startq.cgi?flags=endnnnl&root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cfrisk

It should of course be remembered that, valuable as etymological derivation
may be for tracing backgrounds of word-meanings, any word's meaning in the
usage of a particular era need not bear any direct association with its
etymology.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/



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