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etymology

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., ethimolegia "facts of the origin and development of a word," from Old French etimologie , ethimologie (14c., Modern French étymologie ), from Latin etymologia , from Greek etymologia "analysis of a word to find its true origin," properly "study ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Etymology is an audio source library recorded in 1995 by Skeleton Crew . It was released by Rarefaction in 1997 in the United States on audio CD and CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95 PCs. The sound files (16-bit AIFF stereo, sampled at 44.1 kHz) are royalty ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a history of a word the study of the sources and development of words

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words. 2 (context countable English) An account of the origin and historical development of a word.

Usage examples of etymology.

I need another etymology: parasitism, helotism, commensalism, mutualism, dulosis, symbiosis.

I paid always the greatest deference, I invited Mr Keekie of Loupinton, who was a sound preacher, and a great expounder of the kittle parts of the Old Testament, being a man well versed in the Hebrew and etymologies, for which he was much reverenced by the old people that delighted to search the Scriptures.

Before examining these etymologies metaphorically, we must address the suspicion that such an approach imposes anachronistic readings upon the material.

A chap from Liverpool used to be called Scouse, he tells her, wondering whether the etymology is the same.

The Algonkins, who knew no other meaning for Michabo than the Great Hare, had lost, by a false etymology, the best part of their religion.

Celtic language, but is apparently of Egyptian or Canaanitish etymology.

While I was at it looked up galactorrhea, which had not made it into the American Heritage, but the etymology became obvious as I searched: galaxy.

A humble-minded man may not have learning enough to know the etymology of the name which best describes his character, but the divine nature which is in him teaches him to look down, to walk meekly and softly, and to speak seldom, and always in love.

My object was not to settle the etymology or definition of a word, but to show that women had often died in childbed, poisoned in some way by their medical attendants.

The last century abounded with antiquarians of profound learning and easy faith, who, by the dim light of legends and traditions, of conjectures and etymologies, conducted the great grandchildren of Noah from the Tower of Babel to the extremities of the globe.

Maybe not, for in the Etymologies, the plural form of atar is simply atari (entry ATA-).

He would slip into our hands tempting baubles taken from etymology and comparative linguistics, and enjoyed seeing us grab them and come to grief.

I know that such enquiries into etymologies have been much decried: but if, as is the case, words are the representative signs of ideas, the genealogy of the one becomes that of the other, and a good etymological dictionary would be the most perfect history of the human understanding.

Without a tedious detail, the modern reader could not form a just idea of the strange allusions, the forced etymologies, the solemn trifling, and the impenetrable obscurity of these sages, who professed to reveal the system of the universe.

Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.