Historical Linguistics
Historical linguistics allows us to deep-dive into humanity’s past: “Linguistic history is basically the darkest of the dark arts, the only means to conjure up the ghosts of vanished centuries. With linguistic history, we reach farthest back into the mystery: humankind” (Lyle Campbell).
- Etymologies are included for many terms and are traced to their proto-languages.
- Indo-European and Semitic Roots appendices are included.
- American English corpus with over one billion words.
- Free online etymological dictionary of the English language.
- Interactive and searchable language family trees.
Dillon Bolding 