Introduction

The Internet Resources

Etymology pages to build up your vocabulary

• Vocabulary Workshop - Prefixes, suffixes, roots of the words are linked to each other and you can enjoy hopping from a word to another word. :-)

• Word City 2001 from VOCABULARY University - You can explore the words based on the roots 'SPECT' 'CEPT' 'VERT' 'STA' 'REG' 'MISS.'

• Vocabulary Building - This page is about prefix and suffix. It's a very simple page, but will be a good introduction to the etymology world.

• Building a Better Vocabulary - This page details the roots of English words with interesting etymology stories, so it's very instructive.

• Mechanics of Etymology; Greek and Latin Roots; Phoneme Shifts - This page discusses the etymology theory. The words' roots are well analysed and categorised.

• ETYMOLOGY Parent page - What is affix, preffix and suffix? The question will be solved in this page.

• English derived words composed from Latin or Greek prefixes, roots, or suffixes; including vocabulary quizzes - The etymology is introduced with its illustration, which helps you remember words easily.

• Vocabulary, Free Word Puzzles and Activities - The cloze tests in this page are fantastic. You will fill out the blanks of some words with the same etymology. This is really fun and you can build vocabulary with pleasure.

Etymology dictionaries

• Etymologically Speaking... - This page includes some words with their origins in an alphabetical order. It's interesting to know them.

• The Big List of Words and Phrases - You can see over 300 words and phrase origins here.

• World Wide Words - This page includes a large number of words with the explanation of their origins.

• A Word With You - There's an etymological library with a large number of words. You can also play hangman.

• Word for Word - There are some words' origins in a QA form.

• Take Our Word For It Archives - There are a lot of etymology questions and the answers.

• Back Issues of Take Our Word For It - The explanation of the etymology is detailed, but the words are not alphabetically sorted.

Background of etymology (history)

• A (Very) Brief History of the English Language - You should know the history of English language to fully enjoy etymology. Here is a brief history.

Etymology links

• Links for Logophiles - This link is in the 'A Word With You' site. The links include word origins, word games, dictionaries, reference collection, ohter language reference works, language puzzle references, and miscellaneous information sites.

• Links of Interest to Readers of Take Our Word For It - This link is in the 'Take Our Word For It' site. There are links of dictionaries, language, and the hall of fame, as well as etymology.

Others

• Dictionary of English Phonesthemes - Have you ever heard of the word 'Phonesthemes' or sound-symbols. It's something like 'sniff, snore, snort, snuffle, snot, snooze' or 'glower, glow, glimmer, glance, gleam.' It's very much related to word formation.

• Behind the Name - the Etymology and History of First Names - You can know a lot of interesting etymology and history of first names.

• Osler Eponyms - Words and terms named after Sir William Bart Osler.

• Database of American Proprietary Eponyms - An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name.

• Origins of some arithmetic terms - This etymology page focuses on only arithmetic terms.