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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "funkymonkey1148" <funkymonkey1148@...> wrote: > > Does anyone know of online resources that give French etymological > information, preferably in English or Spanish? The only thing in English I can think of (and I don't know of any in Spanish, though they may very well exist) that you can use is the American Heritage Dictionary at Bartleby; given that so much English vocabulary is from French, I've often used it precisely as a source for French etymology (even down to Vulgar Latin if I'm lucky). The link is: http://www.bartleby.com/61/ Unfortunately for those who don't know French, the best sources are, of course, in French. The two I use are: http://atilf.atilf.fr/academie9.htm - The French Academy dictionary; its limitations are that it is incomplete (stops after N I think) and the etymologies aren't as complete as the next source: http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/fast.exe - This is complete both in being A-Z and also offering excellent etymologies, including Vulgar and Popular Latin forms and word histories of every stage of the French language when applicable. Its drawback is that the entries are simply hard to read (small font, everything runs together...) Now, if you know Italian, an excellent source is this Italian etymological dictionary that also gives cognates in French, Occitan, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.: http://www.etimo.it/ And if you didn't know, there are also Spanish and Portuguese etymological dictionaries online (the Portuguese not as impressive as the above sources but still useful): Spanish: http://www.rae.es Portuguese: http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/dlpo.aspx I've used all the above sources in the construction of my current conlang project, an engineered form of Later Latin (including Vulgar, Popular and Medieval). Now if only I could find one for Romanian. :( Cheers, Eamon