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What does Etymology means?

Updated: 8/4/2022
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9y ago

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it means the study of words and their origins, and grammar.
Perhaps you mean "etymology", the study of the origin of words, or the origin of a specific word.

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Jeanette Kulas

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It means an account of all the facts relating to formation of word and development of its meaning.

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15y ago

Chambers gives definition of "etymology" as: the science or investigation of the derivation and original signification of words. So "etymologically" is an adverb meaning that word(s) are being used in their original sense, rather than what they may have come to mean in more recent times.

A good example is "presently", which used to be used (by Shakespeare for example) to mean "at present", whereas now it usually means "in a little while".

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