etymologist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *set-?

Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.?

Ancient Greek ἔτυμος (étumos)

Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-

Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)

Ancient Greek -λογος (-logos)

Ancient Greek ἐτῠμόλογος (etŭmólogos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek ἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ (etŭmologĭ́ā)bor.

Latin etymologiader.

Old French ethimologiebor.

Middle English ethymologie

English etymology

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istader.

Old French -istebor.

Middle English -ist

English -ist

English etymologist

From etymology + -ist.

By surface analysis, etymo- +‎ -logist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

etymologist (plural etymologists)

1. A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53:

     This was the first time that James had met with one of the bogus etymologists common at that period, who believed that the derivation of a word could be solved by finding any foreign word that sounded something like it.

Derived terms

• folk etymologist

Related terms

• etymological
• etymologize
• etymology
• etymon

Translations

person who specializes in etymology

• Armenian: ստուգաբան (hy) (stugaban)
• Belarusian: этымо́лаг m (etymólah)
• Bulgarian: етимолог m (etimolog)
• Catalan: etimòleg m, etimòloga f, etimologista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞源學家 / 词源学家 (zh)

• Czech: etymolog (cs) m
• Danish: etymolog c
• Finnish: etymologi (fi)
• French: étymologiste (fr) m or f by sense, étymologue m or f by sense
• German: Etymologe (de) m
• Greek: ετυμολόγος (el) m or f (etymológos)
• Hungarian: etimológus (hu)
• Icelandic: orðsifjafræðingur m
• Italian: etimologista (it) m or f, etimologo (it) m, etimologa (it) f
• Korean: 어원학자(語源學者) (eowonhakja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: etîmolog (ku)

• Latin: etymologus m, etymologos m
• Latvian: etimologs m, etimoloģe f
• Macedonian: етимолог m (etimolog)
• Manx: bun-ockleyder m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etymolog m

  Nynorsk: etymolog m

• Polish: etymolog (pl) m, etymolożka (pl) f
• Portuguese: etimólogo (pt) m, etimologista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: etimolog (ro) m, etimologist (ro) m
• Russian: этимо́лог (ru) (etimólog)
• Serbo-Croatian: etimòlog (sh) m
• Slovak: etymológ (sk) m, etymologička (sk) f
• Slovene: etimolog m, etimologinja f
• Spanish: etimologista m or f, etimólogo m
• Swedish: etymolog (sv) c
• Turkish: etimolog (tr)
• Ukrainian: етимо́лог m (etymóloh)

Dutch

Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from French étymologiste. Equivalent to etymologie +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.ti.moː.loːˈɣɪst/
• Hyphenation: ety‧mo‧lo‧gist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

etymologist m (plural etymologisten, no diminutive)

1. (dated, rare) etymologist [early 18th–mid-20th c.]

   Synonym: etymoloog