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What (who) is etymological - definition

STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF WORDS, THEIR ORIGINS, AND HOW THEIR FORM AND MEANING HAVE CHANGED OVER TIME
Ethymology; Etymologist; Etymologic; Etymologies; Etymon; Etymological; Etimologio; AL II; MAN I; Etymologically; Origins of popular expressions and phrases; Etymlogy; Etymlogical; Word origin; Etimology; Etym; Etmyology; Eptimology; Etamology; Study of Words; Word history; History of words; Etymologists; Etym.; Etomology

Etymological         
·adj Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
etymological         
Etymological means concerned with or relating to etymology. (FORMAL)
'Gratification' and 'gratitude' have the same etymological root.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
Etymological fallacy         
GENETIC FALLACY THAT HOLDS THAT THE PRESENT-DAY MEANING OF A WORD OR PHRASE SHOULD NECESSARILY BE SIMILAR TO ITS HISTORICAL MEANING
The etymological fallacy; Appeal to etymology; Etymology is not meaning; Etymological fallacies; Etymological Fallacy; Etymology fallacy; Etymology Fallacy
An etymological fallacy is committed when an argument makes a claim about the present meaning of a word based exclusively on that word's etymology. It is a genetic fallacy that holds a word's historical meaning to be its sole valid meaning and that its present-day meaning is invalid.

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Etymology

Etymology ( ET-im-OL-ə-jee) is the study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes. It is a subfield of historical linguistics, and draws upon comparative semantics, morphology, semiotics, and phonetics.

For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts, and texts about the language, to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in meaning and form, or when and how they entered the language. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about forms that are too old for any direct information to be available. By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots in many European languages, for example, can be traced all the way back to the origin of the Indo-European language family.

Even though etymological research originated from the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

Examples of use of etymological
1. Etymological evidence is welcomed from books, magazines, film scripts, fanzines, and unpublished papers and letters.
2. It follows the etymological meaning of the word by turning one‘s attention to the presence of the church.
3. It was first used for aircraft controls, but much else about its origins – both mechanical and etymological – is a matter of debate.
4. Since ‘kasaba‘ is also the dative form ARTICLE I wonder if there is any etymological connection between «kasap,» the Turkish word for butcher, and «kasaba,» the Turkish word for town.
5. Both Russian and English etymological dictionaries tell you that the words come from the Latin pro– (before) and fanum (temple), and they meant people standing in front of the temple –– the uninitiated.