Значення

значень: 4
  1. (незлічуване)The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

    Holonyms: historical linguistics < linguistics

  2. (злічуване)The entire catalogue of meanings that a word, morpheme, or sign has carried throughout its history.

    Although written the same, the words lead (the metal) and lead (the verb) have totally different etymologies.

    a history of a word

  3. (злічуване)An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

    Etymologie, Herkunft, Wortherkunft

    этимоло́гияetimológija, этимоло́гияetimológija

    етимоло́гіяetymolóhija, етимоло́гіяetymolóhija

  4. (злічуване)The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.

Приклади

речень: 15
  1. I love reading etymologies.

    Мені подобається читати про етимологію.

  2. Etymologies fascinate me.

    Етимологія зачаровує мене.

  3. What's the etymology of this word?

    ruКакая у этого слова этимология?

    deWas ist die Etymologie dieses Wortes?

  4. Ziri wants the etymology of the word.

  5. The etymology of this word is uncertain.

    ruЭтимология этого слова неясна.

Українська
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Походження

From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from

From Middle English ethymologie, from Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study or logic of”), from λόγος (lógos, “word; explanation”). By surface analysis, etymo- + -logy.

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