- Some words arise from contracting two words together (i.e., atone = at one).
- Words that sound vaguely the same can have surprising connections that make sense when we think about the meaning of these words or how they are interpreted (however disparate they may be)
Topics
- Interesting Etymological Decompositions of English Words
- Names Index
- Proto-Indo-European Etymology
- Greco-Latin Etymology
Unknown Word Roots
- Otium - ease / leisure
Links
- Etymonline - resource for learning etymology