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Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote: > --- Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@hidden.email> wrote: > Given > > that there are no Vulgar Latin dictionaries (that I > > am aware of anyway), I'd > > like to know how others have obtained all of their > > vocabulary. > > Scotto > > Well, I found most of my by looking through Spanish > and French etymological dictionaries. I have yet to > find an etymology for Portuguese, Italian or Occitan. The vocabulary section of WH Paden's "An Introduction to Old Occitan" (a commendable book in all respects) gives etymologies for a good chunk of OO words, not just lexemes but also derivational morphemes as well. For Italian etymology, there's the website http://www.etimo.it/ And, if anyone wants some Romanian etymological goodness, there's http://dexonline.ro/ Dan