Ernest Weekley was a British philologist. From 1898 to 1938 he was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham

University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

. But he is best known as the author of a number of works on etymology. His An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) (850 pages) has been cited as a source by most authors of similar books over the 90 years since it was published.

He married Frieda von Richthofen

Frieda von Richthofen

Frieda Freiin von Richthofen , a distant relative of the "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen, who is best known for her marriage to the British novelist D. H. Lawrence.-Life:...

 in 1899. Together they had three children. Weekley divorced Frieda in 1913 following her elopement with D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...

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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)

External links

• Books by Ernest Weekley published prior to 1923 are freely downloadable at Archive.org.