a comprehensive, freely available etymological reference online, characterizing his work primarily as compiling and evaluating earlier etymological scholarship.The dictionary distinguishes etymology from definition and notes that the two should not be treated as interchangeable.

Sources and methodology

Etymonline's etymologies are largely synthesized from established print dictionaries and related scholarship. Harper lists the Oxford English Dictionary, the Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, works by Ernest Klein

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