Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book

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Excerpt from Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book: Being Some Contributions to English Etymology In the following papers I have endeavoured to give a full, and, so far as it lay in my power, an exhaustive, examination of certain words in the English language, the derivations of which, being curious and recondite, present some special features either of interest or of difficulty. With that object I have freely availed myself of the labours of my predecessors in the same field, and have tried to concentrate in one view the results obtained by many independent and scattered investigations. Indeed, all the best authorities that lay within my reach have been had recourse to. I may mention the names of MM. Littre, Scheler, Pictet, and Renan, among French philologists, of Benfey, Diez, Diefenbach, Ebel, Grimm, Ed. Müller, M. Müller, &c., , among the German. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.