Etymology

Background Information

Etymology Sites
What is etymology? H. Rex Hartson
What is etymology? fun-with-words
Where do languages come from? Merritt Ruhlen
Language Contact:  Terms Eva Easton
Vocabulary H.W. Fowler
Word Formation Take Our Word
What is linguistics? Stu Barton
Linguistics Course Sharon Clampitt
Linguistics Overview William Harris
Etymological Dictionary Eugene Cotter
Language Families Ethnologue
Indo-European Languages Jack Lynch
Indo-European Languages TITUS / Univ. of Franfurt
Germanic Languages softrat.home.mindspring.com
Language Identifier Doug Beeferman

History of English Language

Who speaks English?
Time Span of EnglishHistory of English Kryss Katsiavriades
History of English Soon
History of English Douglas F. Hasty
History of English Edwin Duncan
History of English Peter Erdmann, See-Young Cho
History of English infoplease
History of English Carol Jamison
History of English Suzanne Kemmer
History of English Pétur Knútsson
History of English Tim Morris
History of English Daniel W. Mosser

History of English Daniel W. Mosser
History of English Carol Percy
History of English Random History

Old English incl. audio
American English
British English
Phonological Atlas of North America Univ. of Pennsylvania
The Structure of English Words Univ. of Oregon
English Lexicography Technical University of Berlin
English Word Origins C.A.E. Luschnig
Politics & the English Language: George Orwell

Influence of Other Languages on English

Words:  Where do they come from?
Anglo-Saxon Words ibiblio.org
Loanwords Suzanne Kemmer

Loanwords Suzanne Kemmer
Loanwords Univ. of Tampere
Foreign Words in English Infoplease
Foreign Words in English Ashvital
Foreign Words in English:  Greek and Latin
Foreign Influence on English: Romance Languages Zdravko Batzarov

Amerindian zompist.com
Arabic al-bab.com
Chinese Richard Heli
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French Jane M. Rauschenberg
French globegate.utm.edu
French faux amis / Marc Van Campenhoudt
Gaelic
German Jennifer Bjornstad
German Dolores J. Hoyt
German Christine M. Goulding
German Robert Shea
German cognates / P. Boling
Did German almost become the language of the U.S.? Willi Paul Adams
Greek:  Math Andrew Wilson
Greek:  Phobias phobialist
Greek and Latin
Greek, Roman, Norse
Mythology Carla Beard
Indian wmich.edu / Iranga Fernando
Japanese www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring
Japanese Namiko Abe
Latin
Old Norse angelfire.com/tn
Portuguese false cognates
Romance
Languages Zdravko Batzarov
Russian- English Lexis language contact, borrowing, loan words, foreign words, neologisms, false cognates
Russian
Spanish cognates