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ETYMOLOGY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study of the sources and development of words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("etymology" is a kind of...):

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etymology"):

lexicostatistics (a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language)

Derivation:

etymological (based on or belonging to etymology)

etymologist (a lexicographer who specializes in etymology)

etymologize (construct the history of words)

etymologize (give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A history of a word

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("etymology" is a kind of...):

account; chronicle; history; story (a record or narrative description of past events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "etymology"):

folk etymology (a popular but erroneous etymology)

Derivation:

etymological (based on or belonging to etymology)

etymologist (a lexicographer who specializes in etymology)

etymologize (construct the history of words)

etymologize (give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word))

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