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nouna history of a word
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nounthe study of the sources and development of wordstype of:
Definition that contains etymology
- 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
- 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)
- etymologist a lexicographer who specializes in etymology
- 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
- folk etymology a popular but erroneous etymology
- etymologize give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
- 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)
- etymologise give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)