ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Etymological dictionary

... and the history of our literature was so much neglected that even those who should have been well informed knew no better than others. The chief modern example is the well-known case of that most important and valuable book entitled An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, by John Jamieson, D.D., first published in Edinburgh in 1808. There is no great harm in the title, if for "Language" we read "Dialect"; but this great and monumental work was unluckily ...

— English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day • Walter W. Skeat