Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids - Jess Zafarris 2020

References

It required more books and articles to write this book than there are entries in it. The principal sources used to produce it are as follows. These sources often disagree on the origins of words. I have attempted to select the origins that have the strongest consensus, but in some cases, I selected the most interesting (and often kid-friendly) theory. Some were used only as inspiration, while others form the core of each definition.

Many, many additional online and print sources were briefly consulted for supporting facts, sub-facts, and fact-checks, including Wiktionary and Wikipedia, both of which were multiply verified using the source materials from each article, as well as independent sources.

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Barnhart, Robert K. Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Campbell, Lyle. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America, Volume 4 of Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Cresswell, Julia. Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins (Oxford Quick Reference). 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Everett-Heath, John. The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (Oxford Quick Reference). New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Harper, Douglas. “Online Etymology Dictionary: Origin, History and Meaning of English Words.” Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, History and Meaning of English Words. Accessed September 27, 2019. etymonline.com.

Klein, Ernest. Klein’s Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of The English Language. Elsevier Publishing Company, 1971.

Lewis, Charlton Thomas. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. Harper & Brothers, 1895. Retrieved from Internet Archive website: https://archive.org/details/anelementarylat01lewigoog/

Liddell, Henry George., et al. A Greek-English Lexicon. New York: Clarendon, 1996.

Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, 2019.

Onions, Charles T. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. New York: Clarendon Press, 2006.

Skeat, William Walter. Principles of English Etymology. New York: Clarendon Press, 1887. Retrieved from Internet Archive website: https://archive.org/details/principlesofeng01skeauoft

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen & Unwin, 1954.

Weekley, Ernest. Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (A—K). New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

Weekley, Ernest. Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (L—Z). New York: Dover Publications, 1967.

The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency, 2019. Accessed September 27, 2019. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/