Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - etymology
Etymology
etymology
n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the historically verifiable sources of the formation of a word and the development of its meaning. b an account of these. 2 the branch of linguistic science concerned with etymologies. Derivatives etymological adj. etymologically adv. etymologist n. Etymology: OF ethimologie f. L etymologia f. Gk etumologia (as ETYMON, -LOGY)
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noun (plural -gies) Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Anglo-French, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy Date: 14th century the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language, a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies, etymological adjective etymologically adverb ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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