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• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.

n. The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.

n. The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.

n. An account of the origin and historical development of a word.

n. That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.

n. That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.

n. That part of philology which treats of the history of words in respect both to form and to meanings, tracing them back toward their origin, and setting forth and explaining the changes they have undergone.

n. Specifically The particular history of a word, including an account of its various forms and senses.

n. In grammar, that division of grammar which treats of the parts of speech and their inflections.

n. the study of the sources and development of words

n. a history of a word

"There seems little room for doubt: the acronym etymology is not valid."

etymon    etymologist    etymologize   

onomastics   

fake etymology    etymological    false etymology    folk etymology    popular etymology   

inflection    derivation    pedigree   

Egyptology    Scientology    anesthesiology    anthology    anthropology    apology    archaeology    archeology    astrogeology    astrology   

derivation    orthography    philology    pronunciation    punctuation    signification    syntax    accidence    grammar    idiom