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  • bailey English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
  • etymological based on or belonging to etymology
  • etymologize give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
  • etymologise give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
  • etymologist a lexicographer who specializes in etymology
  • folk etymology a popular but erroneous etymology
  • nathan bailey English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
  • nathaniel bailey English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
  • vedanga Vedic texts from the fifth and fourth centuries BC dealing with phonetics and ritual injunctions and linguistics and grammar and etymology and lexicography and prosody and astronomy and astrology
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