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Das Herkunftswörterbuch vom Duden: I don't know when that was first published, but I assume that the "Herkunftswörterbuch" came after the other three.Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen von Wolfgang Pfeifer: First version was published 1989.

Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache von Friedrich Kluge:: First version 1883, newest 2011.

Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB) von Grimm: The earliest (?!), extensive etymology dictionary (started 1838, finished 1961).

I recently completed my search for good etymology resources of german words myself and will now share my results with you:Ĭreating an etymology resource is no trivial thing, so there aren't many extensive such resources, just four: I justify this and explain interesting informations in this context in the text below. The best online resource for extensive etymology information is DWDS (Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache).