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Origins

Origins

by Eric Partridge

1958EtymologyDictionariesEnglish languageAnglais (Langue)Etymologie
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This work is an etymological dictionary of the 12,000 commonest words in modern English.

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EtymologyDictionariesEnglish languageAnglais (Langue)EtymologieEngels
First published 1958

About the author

Eric Partridge

1894 – 1979

Author

Eric Partridge

First published

1958

Pages

972

Read time

≈ 24h

Editions

25

Language

English

Publisher

Macmillan

ISBN

9780025948402

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