Ernest Weekley

Ernest Weekley

Ernest Weekley (1865-1954) was a British philologist. From 1898 to 1938 he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. One of his pupils D. H. Lawrence eloped with his wife, Frieda and married her.

Ernest Weekley was the author of a number of works on etymology.

Selected bibliography

*"The Romance of Words" (1912; and subsequent editions in 1913 (2nd), 1917 (3rd), 1922 (4th) and 1928 (5th))
*"The Romance of Names" (1914; and subsequent editions in 1914 (2nd), 1922 (3rd) and 1928 (4th))
*"Surnames" (1916; and subsequent editions in 1917 (2nd) and 1936 (3rd)
*"A Concise Etymological Dictionary of Modern English" (1924)
*"Words Ancient and Modern" (1926)
*"More Words Ancient and Modern" (1927)
*"Adjectives — and other words" (1930)
*"Words and Names" (1932)
*"Something about words" (1935)
*"Jack and Jill. A Study in our christian names" (1939)
*"Words Ancient and Modern (new combined ed.)" (1946)


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