etymologistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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.

派生語

• folk etymologist

関連する語

• etymon
• etymological
• etymology
• etymologize