Pines and Plains Libraries

More than 24,000 entries with explanations of where these words were derived. Individual words include where useful or necessary, also spelling and pronunciation.

Explores the origins, meaning, and modern usage of more than 300 words and phrases taken from mythology.

A two volume thumb-indexed dictionary containing 500,000 definitions, 98,600 headwords, 25,250 variant spellings, with history and etymology of words.

Contains over 1,500 entries and 600 articles concerning the origins of words in the English language.

Contains over 30,000 entries with word derivations, spelling, pronunciation, and meanings. Also traces how the meanings have developed over time.

Reveals the classical sources and original meanings of English expressions which have come from the Greek and Latin classics. Each phrase is cited in its original text, with profiles of each major classical author.

"Word Histories and Mysteries explores the origins of hundreds of the most interesting words in the English language." "Language aficionados will discover the unexpected links between such seemingly unrelated words as guest, hostility, and xenophobia - hidden connections often dating back over six thousand years ago to Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of English spoken long before the invention of writing. English has also borrowed extensively from...