The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is the most comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language ever published. It is based on the original edition of The Oxford English Dictionary but much augmented by further research on the etymology of English and other languages. Providing a fascinating insight into the development of English, it describes 38,000 words in 24,000 articles which include: present meaning of each word, date of first recorded appearance in English, chronology of the development of each word's senses, earliest written form in English, related words in other languages as well as punctuation. 《牛津英语词源词典》是迄今为止出版的较为全面的英语词源词典。该词典以《牛津英语词典》原版为基础,并通过对英语和其他语言词源学的进一步研究加以充实。它通过 24,000 篇文章介绍了 38,000 个单词,包括:每个单词的现今含义、首次出现在英语中的日期、每个单词的词义发展年表、最早的英语书面形式、其他语言中的相关单词以及标点符号,为读者提供了一个了解英语发展的精彩视角。
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