An Introduction to Old English

Covers the English language from 1500 to 1700, including spelling, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and dialectal origins. Part of the Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language series.

Terttu Nevalainen

Cross-cultural study comparing semantic etymologies in ancient India (Yaska's Nirukta) and Greece (Plato's Cratylus), exploring the connection between etymology and magical thinking across pre-modern cultures.

Johannes Bronkhorst

Linguistic study examining the etymology of the English verb 'cop' through the lens of phonosymbolism, with cross-linguistic comparisons including Sinitic languages and early letter forms.

Victor H Mair

Presents a methodology for creating structured etymological datasets using NLP. The resulting dataset contains over 103000 relationships covering 63603 English lexical terms, extracted from the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Yuan Gao and Weiwei Sun