We cannot know until scholars and students have tested this Indo-European root appendix if such information is of any substantial value, but if one is to have etymologies, why not, we thought, give the whole story. To make the story as clear and readable as possible we also eliminated all abbreviations and symbols from etymologies in the body of the book, and, in large measure, from the appendix.
Now that the task of creating the new dictionary is completed, I can only echo the remark made by Dr. Johnson as he delivered the last folio of his great work to the printer: "Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.