An etymologicon of the English tongue, or, The derivations of English words from their proper fountains

that is, these twelve languages following viz. from English-Saxon, or the old English before the conquest ... There are added, secondly, the derivations of all vegetables ... thirdly, an etymologicon of all law-terms, I mean, of our common municipal law ... fourthly, the derivation of all old obsolete words, such as Gower's, Chaucer's ... Fifthly and lastly, an etymologicon onomasticon, or the derivations of the names of villages, towns, cities, rivers, countries, or Provinces, hills, mountains, bays, promontories ... all these digested in to five classes in alphabetical order

by Skinner, Stephen

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