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Word etymologies

brodicius :lta, 17. toukokuuta 2012

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brodicius (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 14.25.45

I'm looking for some information on the origin of some words in Esperanto. Namely, the languages from which they're quite likely to have come. I've found Wiktionary to be helpful to a certain degree, yet even for some words quite obviously derived from a given language, will cite only that language's parent as a source (typically Latin or Greek).

Does such a resource documenting this exist?

tommjames (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 14.40.02

I know of the Esperanto Etymological Dictionary by Andras Rajki. It seems to have gone offline of late, but I have a copy on my server here.

jchthys (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 14.41.56

Yes! Here's one available online. There's also multi-volume printed etymological dictionaries, as I see online, but I've never used one of them. Hope this helps!

pdenisowski (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 17.18.55

brodicius:I'm looking for some information on the origin of some words in Esperanto. Namely, the languages from which they're quite likely to have come. I've found Wiktionary to be helpful to a certain degree, yet even for some words quite obviously derived from a given language, will cite only that language's parent as a source (typically Latin or Greek).

Does such a resource documenting this exist?
I have the Konciza Etimologia Vortaro by André Cherpillod (available from Esperanto-USA's retbutiko). It's a great resource and very easy to use -- I think it's probably what you're looking for.

There is also a five volume Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto which I have not yet seen, but my feeling is that this set is more for the specialist than for the casual Esperantist.

Amike,

Paul

brodicius (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 17.36.13

This has been way more help than I thought it would be. These are exactly what I've been looking for!

I may end up looking into the Etimologia Vortaro series you mentioned, pdenisowski. I'm not so much 'casual Esperantist' as I am 'impassioned language nerd'.

Thanks, everyone!

Kirilo81 (Näytä profiilli) 17. toukokuuta 2012 19.18.46

pdenisowski:
There is also a five volume Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto which I have not yet seen, but my feeling is that this set is more for the specialist than for the casual Esperantist.
Yes, by Ebbe Vilborg; it covers only the Fundamento + oficialaj aldonoj vocabulary (much less than Cherpillod's book) and contains much more details and discussion. The average E-ist should do fine with Cherpillod.

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