ethnology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔθνος (ethnos, “a people, nation”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”)

Noun

ethnology (uncountable)

1. (anthropology) The branch of anthropology that studies and compares the different human cultures.

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnography
• ethnologist

Translations

branch of anthropology

• Czech: etnologie (cs) f
• Esperanto: etnologio (eo)
• Finnish: etnologia (fi)
• German: Ethnologie (de) f, Völkerkunde (de) f
• Greek: εθνολογία (el) (ethnología) f
• Hungarian: etnológia (hu)

• Ido: etnologio (io)
• Irish: eitneolaíocht (ga) f
• Latvian: etnoloģija (lv) f
• Polish: etnologia (pl) f
• Spanish: etnología (es) f

See also

• ethology

External links

• Ethnology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ethnology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ethnology in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911