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Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus Encyclopedia Wikipedia et·y·mo·log·i·cal (ĕt′ə-mə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl)alsoet·y·mo·log·ic(-lŏj′ĭk) adj. Of or relating to etymology or based on the principles of etymology. ...
etymology (ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒɪ) n,pl-gies 1.(Linguistics) the study of the sources and development of words and morphemes 2.(Linguistics) an account of the source and development of a word or morpheme [C14: via Latin from Greeketumologia;see etymon, -logy] ...
the good fortune to survive the centuries. The basic sources of this work are Weekley’s “An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English,” Klein’s “A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,”“Oxford English Dictionary” (second edition), “Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology…...
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