[Corpora-List] Most common non-Romance, non-Germanic words in English

[Tristan Miller]

Dear all,

I'm interested in finding the most frequent words in English which do
not have an origin in any Romance or Germanic language.  Does anyone
know if such a list is available anywhere?

If not, I suppose I could produce one myself easily enough by taking a
raw frequency list (such as Adam Kilgarriff's BNC lemma counts),
querying each entry in a machine-readable dictionary which provides
etymological information, and filtering appropriately.  But that
presupposes that such a dictionary exists.  Does anyone know of a
suitable freely available dictionary for this task?  Since I'd need to
automatically query many thousands of words, I'd want something that I
can download for offline use and access through an API.  I could try
accessing an offline dump of Wiktionary using the JWKTL API, though I
suspect Wiktionary's etymological coverage is too spotty.

Regards,
Tristan

-- 
Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP-TUDA)
Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt
Tel: +49 6151 16 6166 | Web: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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