Searching map area
Etymology
? TBD
Study of the origin and evolution of words
Join to rate
Join to rate

Etymology ( ET-ih-MOL-ə-jee) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics, it additionally...

Instance of
specialty
Subclass of
Linguistics
Historical linguistics
Different from
Entomology
Wikidata