Re: looking for a book

From: Rodney J. Decker (rdecker@bbc.edu)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 08:43:13 EDT


<x-flowed> >Does anybody know of a book that gives Greek words and their corresponding
>English derivatives? I have often thought that such a book surely must exist
>but have not stumbled upon it just yet. It would certainly be handy and
>useful.

In addition to the items listed, you might also note an older work:

Horace Addison Hoffman, *Everyday Greek: Greek Words in English, Including
Scientific Terms* (Univ./Chicago, 1919).

I assume that people using this approach realize the dangers of it: some
words do have a transparent etymology, but others are either not
transparent or the meaning deduced from it are either outright wrong or
anachronistic (e.g., relating DUNAMIS and dynamite).

Rod



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