Stephen Skinner (lexicographer)
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Stephen Skinner (1631–1667) was a Lincoln physician, lexicographer and etymologist. He graduated at Oxford University in 1646, and went to lived on the continent, graduating at the University of Heidelberg in 1654.
His Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae of 1671 was the first important etymological dictionary of the English language. Appearing three years before John Ray's glossary of English dialects, Skinner's dictionary presents a number of dialectal expressions of his native Lincolnshire.
- 1671 Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae: Seu Explicatio Vocum Anglicarum Etymologica Ex Proprils Fontibus Scil. Ex Linguis Duodecim
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References
- Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Dictionary of National Biography (1903).
- D. A. Cruse (ed.), Lexikologie (2002), p. 1235.
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