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	Online Etymology Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Online Etymology Dictionary is an online etymological dictionary.
		Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
		The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Online_Etymology_Dictionary (150 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English.
		This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries.
		Since this dictionary went up, it has benefited from the suggestions of dozens of people I have never met, from around the world.
	www.etymonline.com (150 words)

	Online Medical Dictionary -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Online Etymology Dictionary is a an Etymological dictionary.
		Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book.
		A dictionary that attempts to cover as many words from a particular speech community as possible is called a maximizing dictionary (e.g.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/108/online-medical-dictionary.html (673 words)

	Online Dictionary Links
		Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - dictionary for those terms commonly used, defined, contested, and misunderstood in the philosophy of mind.
		Dictionary of Units, A - an explanation of the principal systems of units, their history, standards, and conversion factors for changing from one to the other.
		Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary - The aim of The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary is to provide profiles of the lives and works of literary authors whose works are valued in the English language, and to do so within an electronic publication which will enable readers to explore literary history as never before.
	www.lankalinksystems.com /directory/worldlinks/dictionaries.htm (2335 words)

	Dictionaries - Glossaries Online - Writing
		Dictionary of terms which may be useful to artists, students, and those involved in teaching art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
		Online version of a published dictionary which is intended to provide quick access to easily-understood and cross-referenced definitions of over 5000 terms frequently encountered in modern biology literature.
		Dictionary of several thousand military terms, including acronyms and abbreviations, which can be browsed as well as searched.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art13360.asp (2059 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Online Dictionary
		Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines civil war as "a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country." That's exactly what is happening between Iraq's Shiites and Sunnis as they slaughter each other daily, despite the presence of American soldiers caught in the crossfire.
		An online dictionary defines escrow as "a deed, a bond, money, or a piece of property held in trust by a third party to be turned over to the grantee only upon fulfillment of a condition.".
		Online dictionary Webopedia explains it as an act of sending email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity.
	news.surfwax.com /webservices/files/Online_Dictionary.html (3722 words)

	etymology - Dictionary Online
		Wordorigins.org Wordorigins.org "Etymology is the study of word origins.
		In this etymology game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles...
		Definition of etymology from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games.
	dictionary-online-swicki.eurekster.com /etymology (525 words)

	KnowProSE.com: Online Etymology Dictionary
		So, from the Online Etymology Dictionary, one etymology of the word 'etymology' is here.
		The online etymology dictionary passed the recursion test with flying colors.
		What you read on my blog here at DDN may not be a full entry, as it is a reflection from KnowProSE.com.
	www.digitaldivide.net /blog/Taran/view?PostID=11377 (130 words)

	Online Dictionary, Language Guide, Foreign Language and Etymology - AllWords.com
		The occupation with the Etymologie resembles in certain respects the popular question play of the children.
		Online Etymology Dictionary is a comprehensive public dictionary of the orgin of words.
		Their dictionary includes every day words like the and day, that told what they used to be before we got them.
	www.allwords.com /Etymology.php (532 words)

	AllWords.com - Dictionary, Guide, Community and More
		This site is less of an etymology site and more of presentation of the word's meaning.
		It features an introduction to etymology, sources of first names in different cultures, and a message board.
		The Dictionary also contains background on the history of English and details on the sources of individual words.
	www.allwords.com /12wlinks.php (442 words)

	BUBL LINK: Internet resources by type
		Online dictionary with definitions for almost 1000 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to geographical information systems or which geographers may come across in the course of their work.
		Dictionary of gestures, signs, and body language cues from the Centre for Nonverbal Studies which aims to advance the study of human communication in all forms excepting oral means.
		Online searchable version of Nicot's 'Thresor de la Langue Francoyse', a French dictionary written in 1606 and considered 'the key to the development of French lexicography'.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/types/dictionaries.htm (3362 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There were free dictionaries with definitions, some lists of slang words and their sources, and some sites that listed a few dozen of the strangest etymologies of English words.
		O.E.D. "Oxford English Dictionary," the principal source for modern English etymologies, begun in 1879 (as the "New English Dictionary"); a second edition was published in the 1980s and the work is ongoing.
		"May this dictionary, which plastically shows the affinity and interrelationship of the nations of the world in the way in which their languages developed, contribute to bringing them nearer to one another in the sincere pursuit of peace on earth -- which was one of my cardinal aims in writing this dictionary."
	dan.moneeek.com /content/ref/etymology (3528 words)

	Popular Etymology
		The reason of its modern denomination is referred to Basil Valentine, a German monk; who, as the tradition relates, having thrown some of it to the hogs, observed, that, after it had purged them heartily, they immediately fattened; and therefore, he imagined, his fellow monks would be the better for a little dose.
		The popular etymology is, as usual in such cases, supported by an idle tale; however the chemist Basil Valentine is from the end of the 15th century, and the word was already used by Constantinus Africanus of Salerno at the end of the 11th century.
		A person needs not blush because he cannot help betraying he is a Scotchman or an Irishman; but it may nevertheless be an object of ambition to prove that his circle of intercourse has extended much beyond his native place.
	www.wischik.com /damon/Texts/popetym.html (578 words)

	An Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We all use a dictionary from time to time and they are invaluable tools especially when polishing a piece of work.
		Using a tradional dictionary in book form is good, but you must remember that language changes and to keep up the book has to be replaced regularly whereas an online dictionary is being constantly updated.
		For writers the online dictionary is the greatest tool or device since the electric screwdriver or the sulphur match or the application of novacaine or well, you get the idea.
	www.in-education.com /dictionary.php (785 words)

	Etymology OWH Library at Phillips Academy Andover
		This tracing of a word to its original, (which is called etymology), is sometimes a very precarious..thing.
		The MLA Language Map uses data from the 2000 United States census to display the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and three groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States.
		Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance." The "data currently comes from the British National Corpus, a 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language." Searchable.
	www.andover.edu /library/courseguides/ay2005/SS/Etymology/etymology05.htm (294 words)

	Open Directory - Reference: Dictionaries: Etymology
		Altaic Etymology - Online database version of the Altaic Etymological Dictionary by S. Starostin, A. Dybo and O. Mudrak.
		Focusing on Words - An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
		Online Etymology Dictionary - History and evolution of more than 30,000 words, including slang and technical terms.
	dmoz.org /Reference/Dictionaries/Etymology (815 words)

	A book of sayings - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Online Etymology Dictionary at http://www.etymonline.com is a pioneering work of American journalist and historian Douglas Harper.
		The Online Etymology Dictionary uses specialist abbreviations to reference its entries and the inquiring reader will find this handy.
		To host this online dictionary on Etymology Douglas Harper has done extensive research and has used several important resources like Dr Ernest Klein's 'A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,' the most expensive dictionary of etymology in print.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec222005/dheducation15235420051221.asp (648 words)

	Free online dictionaries
		Etymologies are explanations of what words meant and how they sounded hundreds of years ago.
		Online dictionaries for a multitude of languages, and free translation tools.
		Free online Cambridge dictionaries, Merriam-Websters Dictionary and Merriam-Websters Thesaurus.
	www.freebyte.com /dictionary (1056 words)

	ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
		Film copies may be marked with two or more edge codes, one for the original stock and one for each of the generations printed from it (the film is likely to have been shot sometime between the first two codes).
		The period during which the articles published in a periodical are not available in online full-text from a journal aggregator, usually the most recent one to three years.
		In retrieving information from an online catalog or bibliographic database, the order of terms typed as input may determine the success or failure of a search by author, title, subject heading, or descriptor, but in a keywords search, word order should not affect results if Boolean logic is correctly used.
	lu.com /odlis/odlis_e.cfm (9592 words)

	Etymology
		An advanced Latin-Greek-English vocabulary source of etymologies with thematic units of roots, prefixes, and suffixes, and vocabulary quizzes.
		Online database version of the Altaic Etymological Dictionary by S. Starostin, A. Dybo and O. Mudrak.
		Online version of the indexes of R.L. Turner's 1962-1985 dictionary from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
	www.squidoo.com /etymology (880 words)

	Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Reference/Dictionaries/Etymology
		A Comparative Dictionary of Indo-Aryan Languages - Online version of the indexes of R.L. Turner's 1962-1985 dictionary from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
		An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology - The influence of classical mythology on the English language, astronomy, calendar terms, personal names, phrases and conversation, and pop culture.
		Exploring English Words - Exploring English words that are derived from Latin and Greek sources with etymologies and vocabulary activities.
	www.reference.com /Dir/Reference/Dictionaries/Etymology (826 words)

	Online Dictionary - How to use Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If you are searching for a particular word, but are unsure of the exact spelling, online dictionaries allow you to type in the letters you do know, with the '?' symbol inserted in spaces where you are unsure which letter to type.
		Online dictionaries allow users to search for multiple word phrases such as cockles of the heart and daylight saving time.
		Online dictionaries will have their own preset fonts, and it doesn't matter whether you type in capitals or not: tuiTION is the same as tuition.
	www.cbseguess.com /articles/online_dictionary.asp (429 words)

	Online English Dictionary
		Includes an online English dictionary and thesaurus as well as a comprehensive list of Foreign Language Translation Dictionary services and online dictionaries.
		The Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) is the premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus.
		Online dictionary with over 100000 entries, definitions, and pronunciations.
	www.worldlingo.com /en/resources/english_dictionaries.html (152 words)

	Wordlab: Etymologic! games Online Etymology Dictionary
		In this etymology game you'll be presented with 10 randomly selected etymology (word origin) or word definition puzzles to solve; in each case the word or phrase is highlighted in bold, and a number of possible answers will be presented.
		Oh, and in case you're wondering, the word etymology comes from the Greek word 'etymos', which means real, or true, and the -ology ending indicates that it's the study of, or science of.
		We mentioned the Online Etymology Dictionary, of course, but should have noted The Word Spy, World Wide Words, and the Double-Tongued Word Wrester, as well as Etymologic!
	www.wordlab.com /2005/06/etymologic-games-online-etymology.cfm (353 words)

	Dictionary refdesk.com - My Facts Page
		Music Dictionary Online - Our Music Dictionary Online explains words and terms you may meet when reading musical scores, books about music or programme notes on CDs or at concerts.
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		Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues - Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view.
	www.refdesk.com /factdict.html (2456 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - Latest Headlines - dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	www.furl.net /furled.jsp?topic=dictionary (1186 words)

	Golden Swamp » Blog Archive » Online Etymology Dictionary
		Since 2001, the web collection here has been a superb standard for online etymology.
		As the website states: “Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant 600 or 2,000 years ago.
		Think of it like looking at pictures of your friends’ parents when they were your age.” In addition to the factual riches here, a visitor enjoys a sense of adventure and appreciation for language itself.
	goldenswamp.com /2005/08/08/online-etymology-dictionary (310 words)

	etymology - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Etymology : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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	onelook.com /?w=etymology (275 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Online etymology dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Web site "Online Etymology Dictionary" is an amateur site which marshals together etymological resources online.
		A good site, which provides a variety of interesting sources for the etymology of words, and which is constructed in such as way that a new search is created each time.
		It is an excellent tool for those seeking the origins of words, the usage of words and their contexts, and also as a dictionary.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=9984 (177 words)

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