History
The first edition of the FEW, written in German language, German, was started in 1922, with the objective of tracing the origin, history and change of all words in the French lexicon, including Gallo-Romance languages: Occitan language, Occitan, Francoprovençal language, Arpitan / Francoprovençal and Walloon language, Walloon. Since 1952, the Swiss National Science Foundation has supported this ambitious project, with the help of the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1983. The first edition of the FEW was finished in 2002.Structure
The FEW comprises 25 volumes, 160 fascicle (book), fascicles, and more than pages. * Volumes 1–14: Latin, Greek, and some pre-Roman onomatopoeia, onomatopoeic etymology. * Volumes 15–17: Germanic peoples, Germanic etymology. * Volume 18: anglicisms. * Volume 19: Orientalia * Volume 20: loanwords from other languages (Breton language, Breton, Basque language, Basque, Hebrew language, Hebrew, and so on). * Volumes 21–23: Material of unknown or uncertain origin, loanwords from other Romance languages, as well as corrections and new research. * Volumes 24 and 25: New revisions of the letter "A". There is a much-abridged version, the , published by the Presses Universitaires de France, Presses universitaires de France.Oscar Bloch, ed. ''Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française'', 2nd edn. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, PUF, 1950 (1st edn. 1932).References
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