Anonymous ID: 932359 Jan. 29, 2023, 7:32 a.m. No.18248172   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8175

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>etymology

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"etymology

ĕt″ə-mŏl′ə-jē

noun

 

The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.That part of philology which treats of the history of words in respect both to form and to meanings, tracing them back toward their origin, and setting forth and explaining the changes they have undergone."