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    Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue françoise / par M. Ménage, avec les Origines françoises de M. de Caseneuve, les additions du R.P. Jacob, et de M. Simon de Valhebert, le discours du R.P. Besnier sur la science des etymologies, et le vocabulaire hagiologique de M. l'abbé Chastelain.

    Ménage, Gilles, 1613-1692. | Date: 1750
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    Dictionnaire étymologique des noms grecs de plantes / [Albert Joseph Carnoy].

    Carnoy, Albert, 1878-1961. | Date: 1959
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    Specimen of an etimological vocabulary, or, essay, by means of the analitic method, to retrieve the antient Celtic / By the author of a pamphlet entitled, The way to things by words, and to words by things [i.e. J. Cleland].

    Cleland, John, 1709-1789. | Date: 1768
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    Etymologische und wortgeschichtliche Erläuterungen zu De materia medica des Pedanius Dioscurides Anazarbeus / Max Aufmesser.

    Aufmesser, Max. | Date: 2000
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    Antiquitates curiosae: the etymology of many remarkable old sayings, proverbs, and singular customs ... / Explained by Joseph Taylor.

    Taylor, Joseph, 1761 or 1762-1844. | Date: 1818

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