Based on the proposed correspondences listed below, the following phoneme inventory has been reconstructed for the hypothetical Proto (- Macro )- Altaic language ( taken from Blažek's summary of the newest Altaic etymological dictionary et al.

* Klein, Ernest, Dr., A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language: Dealing with the origin of words and their sense development thus illustrating the history and civilization of culture, Elsevier, Oxford, 7th ed., 2000

Axel Schuessler's etymological dictionary presents two possibilities for the tonal morphology of dào 道 " road ; way ; method " < Middle Chinese dâu < sup > B </ sup > < Old Chinese * lûʔ and dào 道 or 導 " to go along ; bring along ; conduct ; explain ; talk about " < Middle dâu < sup > C </ sup > < Old * lûh.

For a possible etymological connection, Schuessler notes the ancient Fangyan dictionary defines yu < * lokh 裕 and lu < * lu 猷 as Eastern Qi State dialectal words meaning dào < * lûʔ 道 " road ".

The actual transition may be captured by Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae ( 7th century AD ), an etymological dictionary.

* Steven Schwartzman ( 1994 ) The Words of Mathematics: an etymological dictionary of mathematical terms used in English, page 48, Mathematics Association of America, ISBN 0-88385-511-9.

In the early medieval times we find more categories of dictionaries like the dictionary of Suida that is considered the first encyclopedic dictionary, etymological dictionaries etc.

In his revised version of Frisk's Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch ( Greek etymological dictionary ), R. S. P.

Although this effort was, in his own words, " totally unscientific ", it has led to the recent publication of an " etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language ".

The etymological dictionary of Vasmer suggests that the word derives from Ukrainian netychanka (" нетичанка "), Polish najtyczanka, a type of a carriage named after the town of Neutitschein, now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic.

The Universal etymological English dictionary of 1749 gives the town as " Chester upon Street " ( and describes it as " a Village in the Bishoprick of Durham ").

The etymological origin is the old Dutch language veldt, a spelling that the Dutch abandoned in favour of veld during the 19th century, decades before the first Afrikaans dictionary and more than half a century before Afrikaans became an official language.

The etymological dictionary of Corominas says the origin is uncertain, but it suggests that it comes from the Vulgar Latin cappula, plural of cappulum, sword hilt.

# The Etymologies — an etymological dictionary of the Elvish tongues

Although the Shuowen Jiezi has had incalculable value to scholars and was traditionally relied upon as the most important Chinese etymological dictionary, many of its analyses and definitions have been eclipsed as vague or inaccurate since the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions in the late 19th century.

These eastern scripts, which also varied somewhat by state or region, were later misunderstood by Xu Shen, author of the Han dynasty etymological dictionary Shuowen Jiezi, who thought they predated the Warring States Qin forms, and thus labeled them gǔwén ( 古文 ), or " ancient script ".

He was at work compiling an etymological dictionary of that language when he died, posthumously published by Max W. Wheeler.

" A variant of this explanation is also given by the German etymological dictionary " Kluge " that says the word pumpernickel is older than its usage for the particular type of bread, and may have been used as a mocking name for a person of unrefined manners (" farting nick ") first.

* Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, an ongoing project based in Leiden, intended to result in the publication of a comprehensive Indo-European etymological dictionary and described by its authors as a successor of the IEW

He is known for the Kluge etymological dictionary of the German language ( Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ), which was first published in 1883.

He is also the author of A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English ( 1987 ), an English-language etymological dictionary of Hebrew to which he devoted the last ten years of his life.

In 1737 the German philologist Johann Georg Wachter ( 1663 – 1757 ) published an etymological dictionary of the German language, Glossarium Germanicum.

This book had a great influence on Johan Ihre: in 1769 he published, along the same lines as Wachter's work, a Swedish etymological dictionary.

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

There are currently three etymological theories of the name Euskara that are taken seriously by linguists and Vasconists which are discussed in detail on the Basque people page.

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

The etymological origin of the name Mälaren stems from the Old Norse word mælir appearing in historical records in the 1320s and meaning gravel.

Ancient Greek etymological speculation connected the name to the Greek word " μύκης " ( mycēs ), ' mushroom '.

The name ' Qin ' ( pronounced as ' Chin ') is believed to be the etymological ancestor of the modern day European name of the country, China.

This and Caesar's name may have led to a false etymological connection with the ancient monarch.

It has been argued that the name may instead come from the Old English brycg ( gang plank ) or Old Norse bryggja ( quay ), though this idea has been opposed on etymological grounds.

Old historical literature sometimes claims the Basques took control of the whole of Novempopulania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of Gregory of Tours, on the etymological link between the words " Basque " and " Gascon " – both derived from " Vascones " or " Wasconia ", the latter being used to name the whole of Novempopulania.

The etymological origin of the name Cherusci is not known with certainty.

In recent years an etymological back formation has been popularized that suggests it means " son of corruption " or " son of defilement " from another Gaelic word also pronounced " corb " which meant " something is not right in the council " and referring specifically to political treachery or dishonesty, but this " corb " postdates the usage of the names Cormac by several centuries, and thus could not be related to the name.

John Lindow says that due to similarity between the goddess Sága's Sökkvabekkr and Fensalir, the open drinking between Sága and Odin, and the potential etymological basis for Sága being a seeress " have led most scholars to understand Sága as another name for Frigg.

The origin of the name oud ( and its etymological cousin, lute ) for the musical instrument is uncertain, but the Arabic العود ( al-ʿūd ) refers literally to a thin piece of wood similar to the shape of a straw, and may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies.

The name of this temple, rendered in Greek as Aί γυ πτoς ( Ai-gy-ptos ) by the historian Manetho, is believed to be the etymological origin of the modern English name Egypt.

The golden appearance is the etymological root of the bacterium's name ; aureus means " golden " in Latin.

While the word churl went down in the social scale, the first name derived from the same etymological source (" Karl " in German, " Charles " in French and English, " Carlos " in Spanish etc.

It is an etymological design showing the origin of the name of the municipality: Mönster comes from monastery while ås means ridge.

If such forms represent a Welsh version of Bernicia, it is unclear why Welsh would need to borrow a ' foreign ' name for the area, so the former hypothesis is usually accepted, although no etymological analysis has produced a consensus.

A folk etymological theory is that the name ought to have something to do with the " even " ( as in level or flat ) parts around the lake Storsjön.

In the 19th century, one etymological explanation was that the name came from the popular Kazakh legend of the white goose ( qaz means " goose ", aq means " white ").

Although theorbo and chitarrone are virtually identical, they have different etymological origins, chitarrone being a descendant of chitarra italiana ( hence its name ).

The etymological origin is disputed and there are several proposed theories for how the name " Washington " came about.