Etymology

Etymology is the study of the origins of words. Some words have been derived from other languages, possibly in a changed form (the source words are called etymons). Through old texts and comparisons with other languages, etymologists try to reconstruct the history of words — when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning changed.

External links

• Word and phrase origins
• Bibliography of etymological dictionaries
• The Online Etymology Dictionary
• Large Etymological Dictionary of Russian language
• The OOmnik Korneslov project: lexical roots and their derivatives of Russian language
• Words origins
• OriginTrail - Mediawiki-based site devoted to the study of origins
• World Wide Words