Completely OT: Where can I find Hebrew etymology?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 16:13, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladypine at gmail.com> wrote:
> mivreshet is a new word invented by eliezer Ben Yehuda, based on the English
> brush, in a Hebrew form. Bialik prefered the word mis'eret (from hair), but
> it did not catch. On other times, Bialik won: his matos won over the aviron,
> invented by Ben Yehuda, which also resembles the French word avoin.
> The BenYehuda dictionary, available through Bialik institution, and an
> on-going work of putting it online via the benyehuda.org project, would have
> told you that, probably. The problem is that it is only updated till a bit
> after Ben Yehuda's time.
>

Thanks, Orna. Actually, I did hear that "brush" was the origin for
mivreshet, which is why I went looking for an authoritive source. How
about "pitria"?

I took a brief look at the benyehuda.org website, but upon a quick
eying did not see a relevant link. Searching in the google-search in
the corner didn't help, either. I will spend some time with the site
later this week, surely there must be something relevant there.

Thanks!

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