Etymology

etymologism

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Today it means: A word constructed as a translation of a foreign word by using the etymology of the foreign word Full definition →

English etymology ← Middle English ethymologie ← Old French ethimologie
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*set-?
  2. Ancient Greekἐτεός (eteós)der.?
  3. Ancient Greekἔτυμος (étumos)
  4. Proto-Indo-European*leǵ-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*lóǵos
  6. Proto-Hellenic*lógos
  7. Ancient Greekλόγος (lógos)
  8. Ancient Greekἐτῠμόλογος (etŭmólogos)
  9. Ancient Greekἐτῠμολογῐ́ᾱ (etŭmologĭ́ā)
  10. Latinetymologia
  11. Old Frenchethimologie
  12. Middle Englishethymologie
  13. Englishetymology
  14. English todayetymologism

From etymology + -ism.

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