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Thanks for your thorough reply! I'm already familiar with la Real Academia Española site and it has been useful for me since I do speak Spanish. I will try the other sources and hopefully my scant knowledge of the other languages will be enough to see me through. -G --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "eamoniski" <robertg@...> wrote: > > --- 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 >