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The paper presents vol. IX of the Etymological Dictionary of Old High German [Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen], the most encompassing etymological dictionary of any (Old) Germanic language. The volume will have roughly 800 pages, contain a total of 2,950 entries, of which 234 are main entries (the number is only about half the number of the main entries of vol. VIII) coming with a presentation of the full etymology and history of the word. Of these 234 main entries over 40 turn out to be loanwords, mostly attained from Medieval Latin (though originally sometimes from elsewhere). About 25 % of all entries (about 60 % of the main entries and almost 22 % of the fillers) are continued in modern Standard German or in German dialects. With these percentages the volume takes a middle position among the last volumes.