etymology – English noun declension

English noun forms of etymology

Noun: etymology
Singularetymology
Pluraletymologies

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: historical linguistics < linguistics
  • Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.
  • The etymology of the term Japlish is disputed and contentiously so. [2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 13:]
  • Etymologies appeal to people with a very wide variety of interests and intellectual backgrounds. A very few people, such as myself, spend most of their time researching etymologies. A slightly larger number do so very occasionally. Many, many more people look at etymologies, but have never researched any themselves. Some people will never even have thought of etymologies as things which need to be researched. Particularly when etymologies are encountered in the compressed form found in many dictionaries, they can seem to be a given, rather than the (often very tentative) results of extensive research. This book is intended for anyone who has taken the important first step of realizing that etymologies are the result of research, and would like to discover something about the nature of that research, and the principles and methodologies which underlie it. [2011 [2009], Philip Durkin, “About this book”, in The Oxford Guide to Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ix:]
  • I began to study coats of arms, visit the Web sites of portrait galleries and look up the etymology of Gaelic names. [2012 August 13, Leslie Larson, “Up a family tree”, in CNN:]
  • Where did this name Harlequin (or Arlechin) come from? Most etymologies for the name give the Hellequin theory. [2023 July 2, Talia Felix, “Homing in on Harlequin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary:]
  • I'm sure you know the etymology of your name, Goodspeed. [1996, The Rock:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *set-?
3. Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.?
4. Ancient Greek ἔτυμος (étumos)
5. Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
6. Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
7. Ancient Greek -λογος (-logos)
8. Ancient Greek ἐτῠμόλογος (etŭmólogos)
9. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
12. Proto-Hellenic *-íā
13. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
14. Ancient Greek ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ (etŭmologĭ́ā)bor.
15. Latin etymologiader.
16. Old French ethimologiebor.
17. Middle English ethymologie
18. English etymology
19. From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study or logic of”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; explanation”). By surface analysis, etymo- + -logy. See: Middle English Nouns 'ethymologie', Latin Nouns 'etymologia', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἐτυμολογία'.

Verbs referencing "etymology"

Finnish Nouns etymologia.