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English
Etymology
From etymology + -ist.
Pronunciation
Noun
etymologist (plural etymologists)
- A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words)
Derived terms
Translations
person who specializes in etymology
- Armenian: ստուգաբան (hy) (stugaban)
- Belarusian: этымо́лаг m (etymólah)
- Bulgarian: етимолог m (etimolog)
- Catalan: etimòleg m, etimòloga f, etimologista m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 詞源學家/词源学家 (zh)
- Czech: etymolog (cs) m
- Danish: etymolog c
- Finnish: etymologi (fi)
- French: étymologiste (fr) m or f
- German: Etymologe (de) m
- Greek: ετυμολόγος (el) m or f (etymológos)
- Hungarian: etimológus (hu)
- Icelandic: orðsifjafræðingur m
- Italian: etimologista (it) m or f, etimologo (it) m, etimologa (it) f
- Korean: 어원학자(語源學者) (eowonhakja)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: etîmolog (ku)
- Latvian: etimologs m, etimoloģe f
- Macedonian: етимолог m (etimolog)
- Manx: bun-ockleyder m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: etymolog m
- Nynorsk: etymolog m
- Polish: etymolog (pl) m, etymolożka (pl) f
- Portuguese: etimólogo (pt) m, etimologista (pt) m or f
- Romanian: etimolog (ro) m, etimologist (ro) m
- Russian: этимо́лог (ru) (etimólog)
- Serbo-Croatian: etimòlog (sh) m
- Slovak: etymológ (sk) m, etymologička (sk) f
- Slovene: etimolog m, etimologinja f
- Spanish: etimologista m or f, etimólogo m
- Swedish: etymolog (sv) c
- Turkish: etimolog (tr)
- Ukrainian: етимо́лог m (etymóloh)
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Dutch
Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from French étymologiste. Equivalent to etymologie + -ist.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌeː.ti.moː.loːˈɣɪst/
- Hyphenation: ety‧mo‧lo‧gist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
etymologist m (plural etymologisten)
- (dated, rare) etymologist
- Synonym: etymoloog