etymology
nounHow many syllables in etymology?
There are 5 syllables in the word etymology.How to pronounce etymology:
Definition of etymology:
- etymology (noun):
- the study of the sources and development of words.
- an account of the source and development of a word
- the history of a linguistic form (such 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
Synonyms for etymology:
derivation
development of words
history of words
linguistics
origin of words
word history
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