TY  - JOUR
AB  - While granting Cowper the full poetic license he is entitled to, prosaically I must observe that it is not the syllables but rather the philogists who pant. They do indeed breathe rapidly in short gasps after they have established each successively deeper level of root connection in pursuit of the etymological purpose of delineating the origin and historical development of words, or of providing an account of any given word. Etymology as so defined I will designate analytic etymology and distinguish from another form of word study, which I shall call reconstructive etymology.
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SN  - 0090-7324
DO  - 10.1108/eb048933
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048933
AU  - Gray Richard A.
PY  - 1986
Y1  - 1986/01/01
TI  - Sources of Etymological Reference in the English Language
T2  - Reference Services Review
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 9
EP  - 17
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -