etymology

Noun
  1. A history of a word (synset 106526612)
    is a type of: account, chronicle, history, story - a record or narrative description of past events
    subtypes: folk etymology - a popular but erroneous etymology
  2. The study of the sources and development of words (synset 106178571)
    is a type of: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    subtypes: lexicostatistics - a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language

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