where would be the best place to find word etmology?

Question

can i please have a
website url

Where would i find it for something like a flatboat or a elderberry bush? What about aspen leaf?

Answer 1

Dictionary.com is the most convenient reference. I have it on my bookmarks bar.

For example, I looked up traumatic a few minutes ago and found:
[Origin: 1650–60; < LL traumaticus < Gk traumatikós pertaining to wounds, equiv. to traumat- (s. of traûma trauma) + -ikos -ic]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/traumatic

If this or another answer here proves helpful in your research, you can encourage good answers by choosing one answer as the "best answer."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

http://www.etymonline.com/

Online Etymology Dictionary.
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Answer 3

i think you mean etymology, meaning the study of the sources and development of words or the history or a word.
Try wiki or a dictionary :)

Answer 4

Try this site. Best of luck.