Etymological dictionary?
 

Anyone know of a dictionary (an extension to ispell, perhaps?) that can give etymology? This is for an etymological-analysis project, so my code will have many books worth of words to look up, and so I'd really prefer not to use a website that lets you look up one word at a time.

Thanks,

GR

This any good??

Thanks, lugoteehalt, edict seems like a pretty cool idea. Note, though, that it still looks up each word from dictionary.com right when you query it (doesn't cache words).

What I finally did, for anyone who cares: the books I want to analyze are available in plain text, so I awked out a list of all the unique words in the books (turned out to be only around 5,000 of them), and wrote a script to query dictionary.com for each word and cache the results locally. Even with a 10-second pause between words to be nice, it took less than a day, and now I can do my analysis at leisure.

GR