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etymology
  1. (uncountable) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
  2. (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “This name is placed amongst the exotic surnames because no Celtic or Scandinavian etymology appears to be adducible for it.”
      “The etymology of this word indicates a connection with the idea of a household.”
      “It's not a folk etymology, because this is the usage of one person rather than an entire speech community.”
etymologist
  1. A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Not one of our greatest explorers has unearthed more splendid palaces, than the etymologist.”
      “He had no desire to be a poet, an Indo-Iranian etymologist, a lecturer to women's clubs, or the secretary of state.”
      “No etymologist could have accounted for the name of our nation had he not had recourse to our annals.”
etymologism
  1. A word constructed as a translation of a foreign word by using the etymology of the foreign word
etymologization
  1. Process or action of etymologizing.
etymon
  1. The source word of a given word.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As we have above given an etymon of cobweb, we will here repeat our note on the word gossamer in the Fairy Legends.”
      “The old French vairon signifies anything of two colours, and may possibly be the etymon of vaire.”
      “I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz.”
etymologicon
  1. A book of etymologies.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Anyone curious upon the subject of Gib Cats, may find the subject treated at length in the etymologicon.”
      “Skinner's etymologicon has the two entries, centry pro sanctuary and centry v. sentinel.”
etymologer
etym
  1. An etymon.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Hampton has gone where few have gone before into the range of the Etym, and written an SF novel in the wake of the Wake.”
etymologizations
  1. plural of etymologization
etymologicons
  1. plural of etymologicon
etymologists
etymologisms
  1. plural of etymologism
etymologers
  1. plural of etymologer
etymologies
  1. plural of etymology
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The card file to the left of where my father sat has definitions and etymologies of frequently used words, such as pleasure and play.”
      “He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies.”
      “The spuriousness of his Hebrew etymologies suggests, but does not prove, that he did not know Hebrew.”
etyma
  1. plural of etymon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Ten shared etyma between Sinitic and Uralic languages are supplied to the rhyme correspondences in this article.”
      “The lemmata of the dictionary are alphabetically arranged Proto-Slavic etyma.”
      “The verb-like prepositions derive historically from transitive verbs, but the etyma do not function as verbs in the present-day language.”
etymons
etyms
  1. plural of etym
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