Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!druxv!neal From: neal@druxv.UUCP (Neal D. McBurnett) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Dictionaries: American Heritage for etymologies! Message-ID: <1479@druxv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 11:01:42 EST Article-I.D.: druxv.1479 Posted: Tue Feb 12 11:01:42 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:41:15 EST References: <1933@inmet.UUCP> <878@gloria.UUCP>, <428@utcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 15 Recently I've been studying Esperanto (the "Universal Second Language"), and have wanted to compare Esperanto words to similar English words. (E.g., montri (to show) is related to demonstrate. Read net.nlang for more information). I have been quite impressed with the American Heritage Standard dictionary for its etymologies and especially for the section on Proto- Indo-European roots in the back. (I don't think the collegiate version has the Indo-European section.) For each inflexion of each root, several derived modern words (mostly English) are listed. Great fun! There are also some wonderful articles on the history of English and Proto-Indo-European in the front of the the dictionary, along with an article on using computers for language study. -Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal, 303-538-4852