- Anatoly Liberman
Anatoly Liberman is a professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he teaches courses in linguistics, etymology, and folklore. Liberman is a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, previously Leningrad, U.S.S.R.. His main graduate works, written under the auspices of the renowned philologist M.I. Steblin-Kamensky, focused on Middle English and Icelandic phonetics. He emigrated in 1975. - Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge was a noted New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. Partridge was born near Waimata Valley, Gisborne, on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge, a grazier, and his wife Ethel Norris. In 1907 the family moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School. He then studied first Classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. - William Safire
William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for "The New York Times" and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the "New York Times Magazine", a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics. - Barry Popik
Barry Popik (b. 1961) is an American amateur etymologist, a rated chess master who has competed in more than a hundred countries, and an administrative law judge who has also run for political office in New York City. - Michael Quinion
Michael Quinion is a British etymologist and writer. He runs the web site World Wide Words, devoted to linguistics. - John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he also translated Dante's "Divine Comedy", wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the "Saturday Review" as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont. In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, … - Allen Walker Read
Allen Walker Read (June 1 or 2, 1906 - October 16, 2002) was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck." Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928-1931. - Isidore Of Seville
Saint Isidore of Seville (Spanish: or), Latin: (c. 560 - April 4, 636) was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. All the later medieval history-writing of Hispania were based on his histories. At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, … - Peter Tamony
Peter Tamony (October 9, 1902 - July 24, 1985) was an Irish American etymologist. - Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He was invited to write regular essays in the "New England Journal of Medicine", … - Hensleigh Wedgwood
Hensleigh Wedgwood (21 January 1803 - 2 June 1891) was a British etymologist, philologist and barrister, author of "A Dictionary of English Etymology". Wedgwood was the fourth son of Josiah Wedgwood II, grandson of the potter Josiah Wedgwood and a brother of Emma Darwin. For finishing bottom in the classical tripos at Cambridge in 1824, Wedgwood was awarded the first "wooden wedge", equivalent to the wooden spoon. - Julius Pokorny
Julius Pokorny was a scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism. He was born in Prague and studied at the University of Vienna, where he also taught from 1913 to 1920. From 1920 to 1935, he held the chair of Celtic philology at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, before the Nazis discovered that, in spite of being a German nationalist, he was of Jewish descent. - Max Vasmer
Max Vasmer (February 28, 1886-November 30, 1962) was a Russian-born German linguist who studied problems of etymology of Indo-European, Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages and worked on history of Slavic, Baltic, Iranian, and Finno-Ugric peoples. Vasmer was born of German parents in St. Petersburg and graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1907. Since 1910, he delivered lectures there as a professor. - Walter William Skeat
Walter William Skeat (November 21, 1835 - 1912), English philologist, was born in London on the 21st of November 1835, and educated at King's College School (Wimbledon), Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. The noted palaeographer T. C. Skeat was his grandson. In 1878 he was elected Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. He completed Mitchell Kemble's edition of the "Anglo-Saxon Gospels", … - Robert Burchfield
Robert William Burchfield CNZM CBE (January 27, 1923 - July 5, 2004) was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he studied at Victoria University in Wellington and, later, at Magdalen College, Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he was mentored by J.R.R. Tolkien. From 1957 to 1986 he edited the second Supplement to the "Oxford English Dictionary". - Friedrich Kluge
Friedrich Kluge is known for the Kluge etymological dictionary of the German language ("Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache"), which was first published in 1883. Kluge was born in Köln, Germany, and died in Freiburg. He studied Comparative Linguistics and Classic and Modern Philologies at the universities of Leipzig, Strasbourg and Freiburg. He was a professor of German at the universities of Jena and Freiburg. - Kemp Malone
Kemp Malone (Minter, Mississippi, March 14, 1889-October 13, 1971) was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer who was lecturer and then professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University from 1924 to 1956. Born in an academic family, Kemp Malone graduated from Emory College as it then was in 1907, with the ambition of mastering all the languages that impinged upon the development of Middle English. - John Jamieson
Reverend John Jamieson, D.D. (March 3, 1759 - July 12, 1838) was a Scottish lexicographer, son of a minister, born in Glasgow. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, and subsequently attended classes at the University of Edinburgh After six years' theological study, Jamieson was licensed to preach in 1789 and became pastor of an Anti-burgher congregation in Forfar, Angus; and in 1797 he was called to the Anti-burgher church in Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. - Charles Talbut Onions
Charles Talbut Onions (C.T. Onions) (1873-1965) was an English grammarian and lexicographer. He joined James Murray on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford in 1895 and in 1914 he began independent editorial work with his own assistants. His "A Shakespeare Glossary" was published in 1911. He co-edited the 1933 Supplement with William Craigie. Following the death of William Little in 1922, … - James Bradstreet Greenough
James Bradstreet Greenough (May 4, 1833 - October 11, 1901), United States classical scholar, was born in Portland, Maine. He graduated at Harvard in 1856, studied one year at the Harvard Law School, was admitted to the Michigan bar and practised in Marshall, Michigan, until 1865, when he was appointed tutor in Latin at Harvard. In 1873 he became assistant professor, and in 1883 professor of Latin, a post which he resigned hardly six weeks before his death at Cambridge, … - Carl Darling Buck
Carl Darling Buck (October 2, 1866 - February 8, 1955), American philologist, was born in Bucksport, Maine. He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1887-1889) and in Leipzig (1889-1892). In 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago, … - Aleksander Brückner
Aleksander Brückner was a Polish scholar of Slavic languages and literatures (Slavistics), philologist, lexicographer and historian of literature. He is among the most notable Polish scholars of the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as the first to prepare complete monographs on the history of the Polish language and culture. He published more than 1,500 titles. - Yaska
Yaska also gives a test for nouns both concrete and abstract: nouns are words which can be indicated by the pronoun "that". - Manfred Mayrhofer
Manfred Mayrhofer is an Indo-Europeanist specialized on Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer is professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit. Mayrhofer studied Indo-European and Semitic linguistics and philosophy in Graz. From 1963 to 1966 he was professor in Saarbrücken, from 1966 until his retirement in 1988 in Vienna. - Hjalmar Frisk
Hjalmar Frisk was a Swedish linguist in Indo-European studies and rector of Göteborg University 1951-1966. - Jaroslav Rudnyckyj
Jaroslav Bohdan Rudnyckyj OC (1910 - October 19, 1995) was a Ukrainian-Canadian linguist, lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics, folklorist, bibliographer, travel writer, and publicist. He was one of the pioneers of Slavic Studies (see Slavistics) in Canada and one of the founding fathers of Canadian "Multiculturalism". In scholarship, he is best known for his incomplete two volume "Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language" (1962-82), … - Mahananda Sapkota
Mahananda Sapkota (1896-1977) was a Nepalese social worker, etymologist, linguist, and poet. He received several national awards for his contributions to poetry. His social work focused on education and social awareness particularly in eastern Nepal. A statue of him stands in Inaruwa of Sunsari District. - Joseph Vendryes
Joseph Vendryes was a French linguist. After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was École Pratique des Hautes Études's chairman of Celtic languages and literature. He founded the journal "Études celtiques." He was a member of Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. - Ward van Osta
Ward van Osta is a Belgian historian and etymologist. He is a member of the "Koninklijke Commissie voor Toponymie en Dialectologie". - Vasily Abaev
Vaso (Vasily) Ivanovich Abaev (Ossetian: "Абайты Васо", Russian: "Василий Иванович Абаев", also transilterated as Abaity and Abayev; 15 December 1900 in Kobi, Georgia, Russian Empire — 18 March 2001 in Saint Petersburg) was an ethnically Ossetian Soviet linguist specializing in Ossetian and Iranian linguistics. - Bekir Çoban-Zade
Bekir Çoban-zade, and his last name means 'son of shepherd'. As a young boy, he helped his father herd the sheep, and these early experiences in the countryside left a lasting impression on the sensitive boy. Many of his poems are replete with descriptions of Crimean pastoral scenes. He received his early education in Crimea and Istanbul. In 1916, he went to Budapest to enroll at the University of Peter Pazmany and received his Ph.D. in 1919. - Ronan
Detached from reality and suscepitble to influence. - Michael Horton
I recently moved to New Orleans. I am a graduate of UTPB with a BFA in Art with emphasis in Visual Communications. I am a freelance web designer. I am happy. - Erika
Hey, Erika here. Yeah, so I WAS living in Chicago, but shit didn't work out. OH WELL, New York is awesome anyways. I hope to move to California in the next few years, I'm just making the best of life here in New York. So.......yeah that's really all I have to say about that......for now. - Ida
Well, my name is Ida and I really like bugs. I mean a lot. I like them a lot. I have tons of them at home as pets, and they're like my family. I work as an Etymologist, which means I get to play with bugs all day long! I'm a lesbian, and I have a girlfriend named Misty. She's really great. Feel free to friend request me, my little spideys and I can use all the friends we can get... - Wesley
Hello, my name is Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. I am a former watcher and rogue demon hunter. I currently work at Los Angeles-based law firm, Wolfram and Hart, as head of the ancient languages department. I enjoy ancient languages and manuscripts, demonology, reading, brooding, being pompous and battling evil with pop-out swords. - Canada
http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html. - Achilles Achilles
- Steve Graham
Poet, Sailor, Picture taker,,,,. - Chris Edwards
If you should see me outdoors or in front of a crowd of people, I'm energetic, confident, funny. In private, I'm witty, insightful, sometime even poetic. Either way, I will not hide me from you, only wish one day you could see...
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