An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language

Name: An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Author: John Jamieson

by John Jamieson

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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Margo von Romberg, Louise Pryor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2012-08-18

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Scots language -- Etymology -- Dictionaries

About the author

John Jamieson

1759–1838

A Scottish minister and scholar, he is best remembered for producing one of the great early dictionaries of the Scots language. His work helped preserve words, meanings, and traditions that might otherwise have been lost.

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