LL-L "Etymology" 2008.04.14 (05) [D/E]

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From: Roland Desnerck <desnerck.roland at skynet.be>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.04.03 (01) [E]

Beste allen,

Ik las over smirken, smerken ...

Er bestaat een Nederlands werkwoord "snerken" en het betekent: een kip
braden.
Grappig als je weet dat mijn naam "Desnerck" is, bij mijn grootvader nog De
Snerck.
Roland Desnerck
Oostende in West-Vlaanderen

N.B. Bedankt Ron dat je mij bedacht hebt met een "paardenmuil"

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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.04.13 (04) [E]

>From heatherrendall at tiscali.com

Sandy asked: Are there any works a person can study to learn the basics of
this sort of thing properly?

Sandy, if you are looking for language histories that will use some chapters
to trace Sound Shifts & word development etc, then I'd recommend any / all
of the following

Simeon Potter   Our Language

Baugh & Cable  History the the English Language

anything by David Crystal

in German  I only know Eggers    Sprachgeschichte which I found excellent.
Maybe other forum members can recommend other titles.

best wishes

Heather

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Sandy, I'm not aware of any literature specifically devoted to etymological
methodology. It seems to be implicit and scattered in a variety of
literature, mostly on historical linguistics.

I can sort of recommend the following:

   - Theodora Bynon, *Historical Linguistics* (Cambridge University
   Press, 1977) ISBN 0-521-29188-7
   - April McMahon, *Understanding Language Change* (Cambridge University
   Press, 1994) ISBN 0-521-44665-1
   - James Milroy, *Linguistic Variation and Change* (Blackwell, 1992)
   ISBN 0-631-14367-X
   - Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph (eds.), *The Handbook of
   Historical Linguistics* (Blackwell, 2004) ISBN 1-4051-2747-3

On the Web, the following provides a very simple introduction with fairly
good imbedded links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

Roland:

N.B. Bedankt Ron dat je mij bedacht hebt met een "paardenmuil"

Neen-k ... Ik bedoelde dat natuurlijk in de aardigste zin, hoor.

Groeten,
Reinhard/Ron

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