Etymonline’s Sources

Etymonline has been one of my go-to references for etymological information. The list of sources provided on their website is ordered alphabetically and is split into two parts. My article here provides a useful reorganization of their two part list into a single list ordered chronologically based on publication date.

This article might also prove helpful with future studies into the history of etymology. The last time I checked their list it contained 82 works. There were the following amount of publications from each century:
C18th: 2
C19th: 26
C20th: 41
C21st: 13

The earliest reference with a word close to etymology in the title is a German publication from 1853 that used the word Etymologisches. The second earliest one is an English publication from 1864 that used the word Etymological. The earliest reference with the word Etymology in the title is an English publication from 1878.

The New List

Johnson, Samuel, A Dictionary of the English Language, London, 1755.

Grose, Francis, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London, 1785; 2nd ed., London, 1788; 3rd ed., London, 1796; expanded by others as Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, London, 1811.

Pickering, John, A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America, Boston, 1816.

Brockett, John Trotter, A Glossary of North Country Words, Newcastle, 1829.

Wright, Thomas, ed., Popular Treatises on Science Written During the Middle Ages, London, 1841.  

Hoblyn, Richard Dennis, A Dictionary of Term Used in Medicine, 2nd ed., London, 1844.

Jamieson, John, D.D., A Dictionary of the Scottish Language (abridged edition), Edinburgh, 1846.

Andrews, E.A., LL.D., A Copious and Critical Latin-English Lexicon, New York, 1851.

Johnson, Francis, A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English, London, 1852.

Diez, Friederich, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Romanischen Sprachen, Bonn, 1853.

Bartlett, John Russell, Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed., Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1859.

Donkin, T.C., An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages, Edinburgh, 1864.

Smyth, Adm. William Henry, The Sailor’s Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, London, Blackie and Son, 1867.

Smith, William, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: John Murray, 1878.

Wedgwood, Hensleigh, A Dictionary of English Etymology, 3rd ed., Macmillan & Co., New York, 1878.

Brachet, A., An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language, translated by G.W. Kitchin, Oxford, 1882.

Palmer, the Rev. Abram Smythe, Folk-Etymology, London, George Bell and Sons, 1882.

Liddell, Henry George, and Robert Scott, eds., Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford University Press, 1883.

Barrère, Albert, Argot and Slang, London, 1889.

Thayer, Joseph Henry, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, American Book Co., 1889.

Barrère, Albert, and Charles G. Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, Ballantyne Press, 1890.

Farmer, John S., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, London, 1890.

Lewis, Charlton T., and Short, Charles, A New Latin Dictionary, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1891.

Hall, J.R. Clark, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, 1894, reprint with supplement by Herbert D. Meritt, University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Gildersleeve, Basil L., Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, Macmillan & Co., 1895.

Farmer, John S., Musa Pedestris, Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes, privately printed in Holland and London, 1896.

Allen, Richard Hinckley, Star Names and Their Meanings, London: Stechert, 1899.

Monier-Williams, Sir Monier, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Etymologically and Philologically Arranged, Oxford University Press, 1899.

Whitney, William Dwight, ed., The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, New York: The Century Co., 1902.

Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1911.

Thornton, Richard H., An American Glossary, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1912.

Bardsley, Charles Wareing, English Surnames, 5th ed., London: Chatto and Windus, 1915.

Weekley, Ernest, An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, John Murray, 1921; reprint 1967, Dover Publications.

Fowler, H.W., A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Oxford University Press, 1926.

Hatefeld, Adolphe, & Arsène Darmesteter, Dictionnaire Général de la Langue Française, Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1926.

Holthausen, Ferd., Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1927.

Gamillscheg, Ernst, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Französischen Sprache, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1928.

Tucker, T.G., Etymological Dictionary of Latin, Ares Publishers, 1976 (reprint of 1931 edition).

Craigie, Sir William A., and James R. Hulbert, A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, University of Chicago Press, 1938.

Buck, Carl Darling, A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, University of Chicago, 1949, reprinted 1988.

Partridge, Eric, Slang To-day and Yesterday, 3rd ed., Barnes & Noble, 1950.

Kent, Roland G., Old Persian, New Haven, Conn., American Oriental Society, 1953.

Gordon, E.V., An Introduction to Old Norse, 2nd ed., rev., Oxford University Press, 1956.

Pokorny, Julius, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, Tübingen: A. Francke Verlag, 1959.

Simpson, D.P., Cassell’s New Latin Dictionary, Funk & Wagnall’s, 1959.

Flood, W.E., The Origins of Chemical Names, London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1963.

Fowler, H.W., A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 2nd ed., revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Mencken, H.L., The American Language, 4th ed.,  Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.

Niermeyer, J.F. and van de Kieft, C., Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, E.J. Brill, Amsterdam, 1976.

Karttunen, Frances, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas, 1983.

Bammesberger, Alfred, English Etymology, Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1984.

Cassidy, Frederic G., and Hall, Joan Houston, eds., Dictionary of American Regional English, Harvard University Press, 1985-2002.

Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.

The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1989.

Rawson, Hugh, Wicked Words, Crown Publishers, 1989.

Ayto, John, Dictionary of Word Origins, Arcade Publishing, 1990.

Wright, Joseph, The English Dialect Dictionary, London, 1900.

Lass, Roger, Old English, A Historical Linguistic Companion, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Wilson, R.M., and Reaney, Percy H., Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1995.

Gelling, Margaret, Signposts to the Past: Place-Names and the History of England, 3rd ed.,  Chichester: Phillimore & Co., 1997.

Lyovin, Anatole V., An Introduction to the Languages of the World, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Mills, A.D., A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Agnes, Michael, ed. in chief, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th ed., MacMillan, 1999.

Venezky, Richard L., The American Way of Spelling, The Guilford Press, 1999.

———-, 20th Century Words, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Herman, József, Vulgar Latin (Le latin vulgaire), translated by Roger Wright, Penn State, 2000.

Hindley, Alan, Frederick W. Langley, Brian J. Levy, Old French-English Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Watkins, Calvert, ed., The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000.

———-, The Diner’s Dictionary: Word Origins of Food and Drink, 2nd ed., Oxford, 2002.

Kluge, Friedrich, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 24 durchgesehene, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2002.

Bright, William, Native American Placenames of the United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Watts, Victor, The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Zoëga, Geir T., A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, reprint, University of Toronto Press, 2004.

Boutkan, Dirk, and Sjoerd Michiel Siebinga, Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden: Brill, 2005.

McSparran, Frances, chief editor, The Middle English Compendium, University of Michigan, 2006.

Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

Ringe, Don, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford, 2006.

Kipfer, Barbara Ann, ed., and Robert L. Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, 4th ed., HarperCollins, 2007.

de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, vol. 7, of Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series, Alexander Lubotsky ed., Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Liberman, Anatoly, Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology, University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

Beekes, Robert, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill, 2010. 

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[1] – https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/sources?utm_source=etymonline_footer&utm_medium=link_exchange. Accessed 16 Jan. 2021.

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