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Etymology

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Etymology has 2 senses

etymology(n = noun.communication) Array - a history of a word; Array

has particulars: folk etymology

Derived forms adjective etymological₁, noun etymologist₁, verb etymologize₂, verb etymologize₁

etymology(n = noun.cognition) Array - the study of the sources and development of words; Array

is a kind of

linguistics

has particulars: lexicostatistics

Derived forms adjective etymological₁, noun etymologist₁, verb etymologize₂, verb etymologize₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Etymology, n. [L.etymologia, Gr. 'etymologi`a; 'e`tymon etymon + lo`gos discourse, description: cf. F. étymologie. See Etymon, and -logy.].

That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning. [1913 Webster]
That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Etymology, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a the historically verifiable sources of the formation of a word and the development of its meaning. b an account of these.
2 the branch of linguistic science concerned with etymologies.

Derivative

etymological adj. etymologically adv. etymologist n.

Etymology

OF ethimologie f. L etymologia f. Gk etumologia (as ETYMON, -LOGY)

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THESAURUS

Etymology

bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, eponymy, folk etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, origin, paleography, philology, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantic history, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics, word history

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Etymology

Word

N word, term, vocable, name, phrase, root, etymon, derivative, part of speech, ideophone, dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary, index, concordance, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, etymology, derivation, glossology, terminology orismology, paleology, lexicography, glossographer, lexicologist, verbarian, verbal, literal, titular, nominal, conjugate, paronymous, derivative, verbally, verbatim, the artillery of words.

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