etymology

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) etimologie < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) ethimologie < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) etymologia < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) ἐτυμολογία (etumología) < (deprecated template usage) ἔτυμον (etumon) and (deprecated template usage) -λογία (-logia) < (deprecated template usage) λόγος (logos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĕt"ə-mŏl'ə-jē, , Template:SAMPA
• (General American) enPR: ĕt"ə-mŏl'ə-jē, , Template:SAMPA

Noun

etymology (plural etymolog or ies)

1. Template:uncountable The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
2. Template:countable An account of the origin and historical development of a word.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with (deprecated template usage) entomology or (deprecated template usage) etiology.

Derived terms

• etymological
• fake etymology
• false etymology
• folk etymology
• popular etymology

Related terms

• etymon
• etymologist
• etymologize

Translations

study of the historical development of languages, particularly of individual words

• Arabic: تأثيل m (ta'thiil), اشتقاق m ('ishtiqaaq)
• Aragonese:
• Armenian: ստուգաբանություն (stugabanutʻyun)
• Asturian:
• Basque:
• Catalan: etimologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Gan: Template:tø, Template:tø

  Mandarin: 語源學／语源学 (yǔyuánxué), 语源学 (yǔyuánxué)

• Corsican:
• Croatian:
• Czech: etymologie (cs) f
• Danish: etymologi c
• Dutch: etymologie (nl) f
• Esperanto:
• Estonian: etümoloogia
• Finnish: etymologia (fi)
• French: étymologie (fr) f
• Galician:
• Georgian:
• German: Etymologie (de) f
• Greek: ετυμολογία (el) f (etymología)
• Hebrew: אטימולוגיה (he) f (etimológya)
• Hindi: ,
• Hungarian: etimológia (hu), szófejtés
• Icelandic: orðsifjafræði (is) f
• Ido:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian:
• Interlingua:
• Italian: etimologia (it) f
• Japanese: 語源学 (ごげんがく, gogengaku)
• Kannada:
• Khmer: ដើមកំណើតពាក្យ (daəm kɑmnaət piek)
• Korean: 어원학 (ko) (eowonhak) (語源學)
• Macedonian: етимологија f (etimológija)
• Malay:
• Maltese:
• Navajo: Template:tø
• Norwegian: etymologi (no) m
• Novial: Template:tø
• Occitan:
• Persian:
• Polish: etymologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: etimologia (pt) f
• Romanian: etimologie (ro) f
• Russian: этимология (ru) f (etimológija)
• Sicilian:
• Slovak: etymológia f
• Slovene: etimologija (sl) f
• Spanish: etimología (es) f
• Swedish: etymologi (sv) c
• Tagalog:
• Thai: นิรุกติศาสตร์ (níróoktì sàat)
• Turkish: etimoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian:
• Vietnamese: ()
• Volapük: tümolog

account of the origin and historical development of a word

• Arabic: تأثيل m (ta'thiil), اشتقاق m ('ishtiqaaq)
• Armenian: ստուգաբանություն (stugabanutʻyun)
• Catalan: etimologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語源／语源 (yǔyuán), 语源 (yǔyuán), 詞源／词源 (cíyuán), 词源 (cíyuán), 字源 (zìyuán)

• Corsican:
• Croatian:
• Czech: etymologie (cs) f
• Danish: etymologi c
• Dutch: etymologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: etimologio, vortdeveno
• Estonian: etümoloogia
• Finnish: etymologia (fi)
• French: étymologie (fr) f
• Georgian:
• German: Etymologie (de) f
• Greek: ετυμολογία (el) f (etymología)
• Hungarian: etimológia (hu), szófejtés
• Icelandic: orðsifjar f or pl
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: sanasaíocht f
• Italian: etimologia (it) f
• Japanese: 語源 (ja) (ごげん, gogen)
• Korean: 어원 (ko) (eoweon) (語源 (ko))
• Macedonian: етимологија f (etimológija)
• Manx: bun-ocklaght f
• Norwegian: etymologi (no) m
• Occitan:
• Persian:
• Polish: etymologia (pl) f, źródłosłów (pl) m
• Portuguese: etimologia (pt) f
• Romanian: etimologie (ro) f
• Russian: этимология (ru) f (etimológija)
• Slovak: etymológia f
• Slovene: etimologija (sl) f
• Spanish: etimología (es) f
• Swedish: etymologi (sv) c
• Tagalog:
• Ukrainian:

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Afrikaans: etimologie
• (deprecated template usage) Basque: etimologia
• (deprecated template usage) bs: etimologija Template:f
• (deprecated template usage) Bulgarian: етимология (etimológija) Template:f
• (deprecated template usage) Esperanto: etimologio
• (deprecated template usage) Estonian: etümoloogia
• (deprecated template usage) Indonesian: etimologi
• (deprecated template usage) Interlingua: etymologia
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• (deprecated template usage) Latin: etymologia Template:f
• (deprecated template usage) Novial: etimologia
• (deprecated template usage) Persian: Template:fa-Arab (rīše-šenâsi)
• (deprecated template usage) sr:

  Cyrillic: етимологија Template:f

  Roman: etimologija Template:f

• (deprecated template usage) Sindhi: Template:sd-Arab (bunn bhiyaasu)
• (deprecated template usage) Thai: Template:Thai (nírúktì-sātt')
• (deprecated template usage) Turkish: etimoloji, kökenbilim
• (deprecated template usage) Vietnamese: từ nguyên từ nguyên học
• (deprecated template usage) Walloon: etimolodjeye

References

• “etymology”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “etymology”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "etymology" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.