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- Dictionaryetymology/ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/
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- 1. the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history: "the decline of etymology as a linguistic discipline"
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Study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time
Etymology is the study of the history of words, and, by extension, the origin and evolution of their semantic meaning across time. It is a subfield of historical linguistics, and draws upon comparative semantics, morphology, semiotics, and phonetics. Wikipedia