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Dialectology

• Plant names in English dialects
  A compilation of plant names published in Wright’s English dialect dictionary
• Noms dialectaux des plantes de France
  
• Préfixes peu connus dans les langues romanes

Etymology

• Names of gods and goddesses
  Origins and meaning of their names
• Names for "world"
  
• Origin of the names of countries
• Highest mountains of the world
  The names of the highest mountains of the world

Lexicology

• 4500 homonymes dans la langue française
• Thesaurus of bird names
  Etymology of European lexis through paradigms

Ornithology

• Index to Gould’s Hummingbirds
  Index of scientific and English names: Gould’s names with currently used names

History

• Origin of male and female symbols
• What are the Picts?
  Picts “an ancient people of the British Isles”
• Villes et peuples celtes
  Noms des villes et des peuples gaulois

Botany

• Bibliography of Isoetes (an aquatic fern ally) and list of world species, including fossils
• Index des noms français cités dans la Flore populaire d'Eugène Rolland