etymology | | |
n. (communication) | 1. etymology | a history of a word. |
| ~ account, chronicle, history, story | a record or narrative description of past events.; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" |
| ~ folk etymology | a popular but erroneous etymology. |
n. (cognition) | 2. etymology | the study of the sources and development of words. |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ lexicostatistics | a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language. |
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