A novel intervention was developed to teach reading and spelling literacy to 5 to 7 year-old students using explicit instruction of morphology, etymology, phonology, and form rules. We examined the effects of the intervention compared to a phonics-based condition using a cross-over design with a baseline measure. One hundred and twenty children attending an English state funded primary school w...

Identifying cognates is an interesting task with applications in numerous research areas, such as historical and comparative linguistics, language acquisition, cross-lingual information retrieval, readability and machine translation. We propose a dictionary-based approach to identifying cognates based on etymology and etymons. We account for relationships between languages and we extract etymol...

We present etytree (from etymology + family tree): a new on-line multilingual tool to extract and visualize etymological relationships between words from the English Wiktionary. A first version of etytree is available at http: //tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/. With etytree users can search a word and interactively explore etymologically related words (ancestors, descendants, cognates) in many langu...

The following etymologies for statistical terms were mainly extracted/modified from http://www.etymonline.com/ unless otherwise attributed, e.g., (Wikipedia). My interest in making this collection was triggered by looking up the etymology of the common English word “average,” which is quite different from the corresponding German term “Durchschnitt” (cut through). Another early example was the ...