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What's it called when you study words?

shilala

shilala

Lifer
What's it called when you study words to find out where they came from, such as where they originated and their derivation?
 
Don't words come from your mouth??? Why do you have to study something so simple...geez....go meet women or something. 😛
 
Main Entry: et·y·mol·o·gy
Pronunciation: -jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -gies
Etymology: Middle English ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Greek, from etymon + -logia -logy
1 : the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
 
etymology:
1398, from Gk. etymologia, from etymon "true sense" (neut. of etymos "true," related to eteos "true") + logos "word." In classical times, of meanings; later, of histories. Latinized by Cicero as veriloquium.
 
This is exactly what my buddy was looking for...
Etymology Dictionary
He digs old words and their meanings. He's got a fascination with Elizabethan culture and "old world" anything.
That dictionary will provide him with hours of fascination.
Thanks for the help, you've made an old guy very happy 🙂
 
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