etymologist
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Noun
etymologist (plural etymologists)
- A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53:
- This was the first time that James had met with one of the bogus etymologists common at that period, who believed that the derivation of a word could be solved by finding any foreign word that sounded something like it.
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person who specializes in etymology
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Dutch
Etymology
Perhaps borrowed from French étymologiste. Equivalent to etymologie + -ist.
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Noun
etymologist m (plural etymologisten)
- (dated, rare) etymologist
- Synonym: etymoloog