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Etymology
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What's The Definition Of Etymology?
[n] the study of the sources and development of words
[n] a history of a word Synonyms | Synonyms for Etymology: Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | account | chronicle | folk etymology | history | lexicostatistics | linguistics | story Etymology In Webster's Dictionary \Et`y*mol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. {Etymologies}
(-j[i^]z). [L. etymologia, Gr. 'etymologi`a; 'e`tymon etymon
+ lo`gos discourse, description: cf. F. ['e]tymologie. See
{Etymon}, and {-logy}.]
1. That branch of philological science which treats of the
history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive
significance, and changes of form and meaning.
2. That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the
form of the words in a language; inflection.
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