The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology

The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press. The first editor of the dictionary was Charles Talbut Onions, who spent his last twenty years largely devoted to completing the first edition, published in 1966, which treated over 38,000 words and went to press just before his death.[1]

Editions
  • C. T. Onions, ed.; edited by C. T. Onions with the assistance of G. W. S. Friedrichsen and R. W. Burchfield (1966, reprinted 1983, 1992, 1994) ISBN 0-19-861112-9

Also published by OUP:

  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English language
    • T. F. Hoad (1986)
    • T. F. Hoad (1993) ISBN 0-19-283098-8
  • An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
    • W. W. Skeat (1910; reprint 1963; now in the public domain) ISBN 0-19-863104-9
gollark: No, just a billion (10^9).
gollark: More substantively, it's a big planet: we could simply live on it and extract resources from others.
gollark: Venusing Earth is probably quite hard. Although I think it'll happen naturally in a billion years or so.
gollark: This would be bad for technology, slow and/or wildly unethical, and not very helpful except under negative utilitarianism.
gollark: Subsistence farming is actually boring and unpleasant though. It is good that we stopped doing it. Although "monke" would be hunter-gathering, strictly. Which is no longer possible at scale due to loss of habitats and population growth.

See also

References
  1. Bennett, J. A. W. "Onions, Charles Talbut (1873–1965)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35316. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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