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EtymologySignificant Significant Etymology
or
and BranchesRoots, Stems,
of the English Language
BY
THE VERY REV.
D.D.MITCHELL, M.A.,JAMES
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
M CMV I 1 1
All Rights reserved PREFACE.
THIS book is what it to a collectionprofesses be,simply
and of the of theexplanation significant etymologies English
It not written for but for intelli-islanguage. philologists,
and men and women who are interestedgent thoughtful
in the of their own and of the sourcesstudy language,
""
from which it is derived. I have called it
Significant
because those roots are which throwEtymology, only given
of words fromthe the derived them.light upon signification
To a word from for of the sameGerman, example,quote
sound and of the same as our is notown,meaning signifi-
but andcant unless foruseless,etymology, insignificant
and it is as that
; besides, justcomparative philology likely
the German word has been taken from the as theEnglish
from the German. In wherecase, however,English every
the word us to understand the oforiginal helps meaning
an word or shows us how it has come tobetter,English
bear its I have endeavoured to trace thepresent meaning,
the written recordsetymology clearly step by step through
of even until its has been found inpast centuries, origin
the fixed form of a parent language.
I do claim Inot for the haveoriginality etymologies VI PREFACE.
otherwise would be of little but Ivalue,verygiven, they
all the ofhave traced them with care through changes
and which haveletters, sounds, meanings they undergone
Dictionaries and other booksdown to the Thepresent day.
in to which I have been indebted are farmany languages
or referred to in thetoo numerous to be mentioned here
for there are few books on thenotes, very bearing subject
I am not morewhich I have not and to whichconsulted,
or less indebted while in cases I have used the
; many very
wordsdefinitions which their authors have of thegiven
in In I have seen reason to differseveral casesquestion.
from other but I have done so without anyetymologists,
I have hadaffectation of and in cases where
;timidity many
to decide between I have alwaysconflicting etymologists,
what seem to me reasons forassigned good my preference.
While I cannot claim for the of thecredit originality
I do claim credit for theassigned etymologies, originality
of the method in which the words are inviz.,arranged
to the different of whichsubjects theygroups, according
or from which In all theare taken.treat, they etymologi-
cal books in our words are classified and arrangedlanguage,
from which areeither to theaccording languages they
to the laws under which thederived, changes
narrowed orhave taken or as haveplace, according they
broadened in or or deteriorated in sense
;meaning, improved
but this is the first so far as I and mosttime, know,
in withoutcertainly where,English, overlooking altogether
these methods of have been inclassification, they arranged
an words connected withwithmanner,orderly beginning
the universe at then the bodies the earth,
; heavenly ;large
its two thedomains of land and water; mineral,great
