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From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Hi Henry and anyone else who's interested

A few Etymology dictionaries for the lowlands region that I have:

English: Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology.
Not the best but it has most words and compares most of them with Dutch and
High German (when cognates exist), but not too much mention of Low Saxon or
Frisian or even Middle English versions.

American Heritage Dictionary. Not an etymology dictionary per se but fairly
good for finding related words by going right back to Indo-European and then
giving various examples. Also gives the Middle English versions which is
good.

Frisian: Altfriesisches Wörterbuch.
Holthausen/Hofmann. OK also not an etymology dictionary and it only goes
from Old Frisian, but shows selected related cognates for Old Frisian words.

Dutch: Etymologisch Woordenboek. de Vries / de Tollenaere. One of my
favorites. Follows words back to Old Low Franconian and practically always
gives Frisian equivalents and of course others.

Contact languages:
German: dtv Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen.
Thorough - lots more information than in a lot of etymologies, but again
largely ignores Frisian, but always gives Old Saxon and Middle Low Saxon
examples when they exist.

Kluge Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
I've heard lots of people slagging this off, but I like it personally.

Danish: Etymologi. Gyldendals Röde Ordböger. Also quite good.

Gothic: Gothisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Holthausen. Good as it gives
lots of examples from all the Older Germanic languages, although it doesn't
explain what's happened when sporadic changes or irregular changes in
languages have taken place.

The list is nowhere near exhaustive. I don't have a Scots etymology,
although I think that in the Scots National Dictionary (hope that's the
right name) the etymologies are fairly exhaustive. Also I don't think that
modern Frisian or modern Low Saxon etymology dictionaries exist - I've never
come across one, and being the sad sort of person that I am who collects
dictionaries I think I would have heard of them if they did exist...

Anyway hope this has helped for anyone interested.

Gary

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