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The Reverend George William Lemon (1726 – 4 October 1797) was the author of an early etymological dictionary of the English language, published in 1783. Lemon graduated at Queens College, Cambridge in 1748. He was Rector of Geytonthorpe, Vicar of East Walton, Norfolk from 1755, and master of Norwich School from 1769 to 1778. Lemon married Elizabeth Young (1735–1804) on 31 May 1760. Both are buried in East Walton. ==''English Etymology'' (1783)== Lemon considered the English language as founded on six older idioms:〔Lemon, ''English Etymology'', preface, p. ix〕 :#"The Hebrew, or Phoenician" (Semitic) :#"The Greek" :#"The Latin, or Italian" (Romance) :#"The Celtic, or French" :#"The Saxon, Teutonic, or German" (West Germanic) :#"The Icelandic, and other Northern dialects" (North Germanic) The entries consequently focus on English words of Latin or Greek derivation. Twenty years before the discovery of Grimm's law, Lemon could not be expected to give sound etymologies of Germanic words, and promptly derived ''acorn'' from Greek ''akros'', or ''addle'' from Greek ''athlos''. Yet Lemon's dictionary is of historical interest as a pioneer work of philology on the eve of the discoveries of William Jones, Friedrich Schlegel and Rasmus Rask that mark the beginning of modern linguistics. Ralph Griffiths' ''Monthly Review'' in 1785 (vol. 71 (), 171-177) reviewed Lemon's dictionary, somewhat ironically, as an ''extraordinary'' and ''delectable'' work: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George William Lemon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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