Etymology

Etymology

Etymology (/ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/) is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

Origin

The term "etymology" derives from the Greek word "etumologia," which itself comes from "etumon," meaning "true sense," and "logia," meaning "the study of."

Related Terms

• Linguistics: The scientific study of language and its structure. It involves analysing language form, language meaning, and language in context.

• Semantics: The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.

• Morphology (linguistics): The study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyses the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems, root words, prefixes, and suffixes.

• Phonetics: The study and classification of speech sounds.

• Syntax: The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

• Philology: The study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics.

See Also

• History of linguistics
• Comparative linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Neurolinguistics

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Etymology
• Wikipedia's article - Etymology

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