Origins unknown

In his new book, linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman gets to the root of 55 words previously dismissed as being of unknown origin. He joins Midmorning to talk about words united by their etymological obscurity.

Guests

• Anatoly Liberman: Professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. His new book, "an Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology," came out in March.

Resources

• About Anatoly Liberman
• An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology
• The Oxford Etymologist