Frontmatter -- Contact details and affiliations of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Etymology beyond word histories -- Towards a framework of contact etymology -- Obscure vs. transparent cognates in linguistic reconstruction -- The etymology of a paradigm: the Pama-Nyungan 3SgF reconsidered -- Constructional etymology: The sources of relative clauses -- Concerning myself -- Granny got cross: semantic change of kami 'mother's mother' to 'father's mother' in Pama-Nyungan -- Shadows of bygone lives: The histories of spiritual words in northern Vanuatu -- Markers of the spirit world in Oceanic languages -- Etymology of Yuwaalaraay Gamilaraay bird names -- The smuggled budgie: case study of an Australian loanblend -- Archaisms in placenames in Arabana- Wangkangurru country -- Subject index