I am having a time finding wonderful word-origin books,
complete with source language and original meaning. Any on or off-line recommendations please? Grace

Sure, but first: were the responses in your 'Six Languages' query helpful?

Here's a url for books for sale that deal with word origins:

http://www.worldsearch.com/ktd.lisa/Etymology/books/en.

Try this:

http://www.wordorigins.org

Another good etymology site:http://www.geocities.com/etymonline/h4etym.htm

Also: http://www.bartleby.com/61/21/H0312100.html