(n.) One who investigates the derivation of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eagle-eyed etymologists, however, noted that none of the words in the Liberalnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya are of Slavic origin, so publishing the name of the party proposing the law could be enough to receive a fine.
(2) In the first study of its kind in 90 years, Columbia University etymologists trapped 133 common New York rats , also known as the Norway rat, to examine bugs that piggyback throughout the city.
Etymology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
(n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one can point out from some languages, living as well as extincted ones, the words for time are derived etymologically from several roots or stems, respectively, which mostly represent different meanings.
(2) The psychodrama aims to the liberation of the human being alienated in his individuality thus giving him back a creative and relational spontaneity owing to the cathartic value of the collective game and drama (taken is its etymological sense).
(3) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(4) And let us hope that we will all enjoy fulfilling the symposium in its entire etymological meaning this evening.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to restore the concept of "handicap" to its original etymologic meaning as a term that identifies a relationship rather than a property concerning only one subject.
(6) The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran Read more Etymology can often mislead.
(7) We didn't want to hide behind 'erotica' – because it's not etymologically accurate for one thing, and I'm very fussy about that kind of stuff, and there's a class element to it.
(8) Etymologically and semantically bound to nursing, little is known about the term nurturance.
(9) Oxford Dictionaries don’t seem to have questioned the etymology of post-truth: “post-” means “after-”, but post-truth is not after-truth, it’s anti-truth.
(10) While there are many holes to pick in this statement, one of the more fundamental is to do with the etymology of the word itself.
(11) The etymology of the word "tic" still remains mysterious.
(12) According to etymology, the word means 'loss of mind'.
(13) It seems preferable to make Brexit feminine,” it said, “since etymologically, the component exit has a corresponding Italian noun, ‘ uscita ’”, which is feminine.
(14) Etymological channels about green and red are studied for many words belonging to the pharmaceutical vocabulary and the authorized dying matters.
(15) Etymologically Sufi, as an Arabic word, means woolen-clad.
(16) "Algeria in Arabic is al-jazâ'ir , which is both very similar to al-jazîra and, etymologically speaking, is in fact simply a variation of the word, which means 'island'.
(17) The listed terms have been used in German veterinary and special veterinary anatomical hand- and textbooks since 1774; etymological remarks are made on some unusual words.
(18) A study of the etymology and pathology of metastasis leads to the conclusion that the essential feature is transportation and not distance.
(19) Both etymologically and in literal meaning the term "oviductal" is overwhelmingly preferable to "oviducal."
(20) Moreover, passion is suffering according to its etymology: until the XVIth century, the word "passionate" meant somebody who suffered physically.