title: Kleins Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
author:  Ernest Klein 
description: Aside from its outstanding value and importance to students of linguistics, Dr. Klein's work is a source of fascinating reading and browsing to anyone with an interest in language.<br />The American Translators Association Chronicle --The American Translators Association Chronicle
zlib_text: Robert Mailhammer (Ed.)
  Lexical and Structural Etymology
  
  Studies in
  Language Change
  Edited by
  Cynthia Allen
  Harold Koch
  Malcolm Ross
  Volume 11
  
  Lexical
  and Structural
  Etymology
  Beyond Word Histories
  Edited by
  Robert Mailhammer
  
  ISBN 978-1-61451-059-8
  e-ISBN 978-1-61451-058-1
  ISSN 2163-0992
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  6 2013 Walter de Gruyter, Inc., Boston/Berlin
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  ♾ Printed on acid-free paper
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  Contact details and aﬃliations of contributors
  Robert Mailhammer, University of Wes