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The study of the origin, basic meaning, and development of individual words as well as of their relationship to words in different languages of the same origin. In ancient times the search for the original semantic motivation of a word was essentially...

Process of word formation based on a reinterpretation of meaning and a reformation of an archaic, foreign word modeled after a similarsounding known word with a similar meaning. Through this diachronic linguistic process, incomprehensible words are...

n. (pl. etyma An ancestral form from which a later form is directly derived. English father has the Old English etymon fæder, which in turn has the PIE etymon *petēr. Cf....

The original meaning or form of a word (...

Etymology is the study of the history of words — when they entered a language, from what source, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. In languages with a long written history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how...

One feature of many languages is that they happily adopt words from other languages, transmuting them into new forms and different pronunciations, sometimes with new meanings or, at least, new connotations. Many, including English even transmute their own words, spinning off variant forms with...

Totafot (the T word) had been rendered as frontlets, phylacteries in Greek (amulets) and as tefellin (an aid in prayer). It is a word loaned from the Egyptians over two hundred years ago when the Hebrews were made slaves of the Egyptians. The T...

 It’s a good question, actually. “La Bamba”: What, exactly, is that song about?Also: Can Mexicans eat anything without hot sauce? And this: Why do Mexicans swim with their clothes on? Those are just the printable – in this newspaper anyway – questions that Gustavo Arellano...

What etymology is and the English etymology of three words: gratuitous, bombardier and odyssey.