Excerpt from An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Comprehending the Derivations of the Generality of Words in the English Tongue, Either Ancient or Modern, From the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
And as fuch helps have been thought ufeful in all civilized nations, they appear more. Eminently necefiary in the Englilh Tongue not only becaufe it is, perhaps, the molt copiou's Lan guage of any in Europe, but 13 likewife made up of fo great a va riety of Otherlanguages, both ancient and modem, as will plai appear to any one who {hall perufe the following Dictionary. The reafon of which mixture, and by what accidents it was brought about, I {hall give the following account.
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