What are some good sites for researching etymology? [closed] Here is an example of a directed graph: It works in multiple languages, providing etymology data, descendants, related words and more It also has a pretty quick search, and the index is constantly growing in the number of words and slowly growing in accuracy too
history - Is the etymology of salary a myth? - English Language . . . 2 Other answers touch on the history of the word salary as it connects back to Latin I'll try to trace a different question - the development of the salarius = soldiers are paid salt folk etymology in English The etymology is already present in English in the early 19th century For instance, the first edition of Webster's Dictionary (1828) says:
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The Choctaw etymology remained more esoteric common knowledge until Woodrow Wilson's time, and continued to be common knowledge until Read purposefully substituted a cock-and-bull fake etymology for it
offensive language - What is the etymology of BFE? - English Language . . . I am fairly certain that the inaccurate “butt fuck Egypt” derived from bum being the English term for buttocks Clearly the definition of BFE is the same regardless of what one believes the “B” stands for, but I thought is was worth correcting I have no idea how accurate or reliable the above etymology is There is no entry on
etymology - Why do people say buck for a dollar? - English Language . . . The word has been in use in this sense since 1748 according to etymonline I would guess most currencies have changed their designs quite significantly since then, and the term likely didn't come from any design on a coin at all The fact that there happens to be a buck on the 1 rand coin is probably either coincidental or reversely causal: they could have put the buck on the coin because a
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