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And the German Lambert, though unworthy of a biographical entry of his own in the four Anglophone dictionaries, is remembered nevertheless in their etymologies of the scientific unit, the lambert, that bears his name.
To ignore this fact is to treat the book as if it were a dictionary of headwords with no accompanying definitions or etymologies.
If you have occasion to refer to this work, it would be well to keep in mind that it can be relied on for picturesque etymologies but not, necessarily, accurate ones.
Aboriginal etymologies are now mostly settled, the historical and geographical evidence of a word's early use being brought collectively to bear as in the case of kangaroo .
A thread running through all these mistaken etymologies is that their supporters think that the only criterion in etymology is “if it sounds like x , then it must be derived from x .” That misconception can be seen on a grand scale in Isaac Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English, which purports to show that about 22,000 (!) English words are of Hebrew origin.