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Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. More at
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Entomology - Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology.
Back-formation - In etymology, back-formation is the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes.
Etymological dictionary - An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed.
Etymological fallacy - The etymological fallacy holds, erroneously, that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present-day meaning.
Lists of etymologies - This is a list of etymological lists.
Malapropism - A malapropism is the substitution of a word for a word with a similar sound, in which the resulting phrase makes no sense but often creates a comic effect.
Medieval etymology - Medieval etymology is the study of the history of words as conducted by scholars in the European Middle Ages.
Neologism - A neologism; from Greek νέος + λόγος is a newly coined word or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but has not yet been accepted into mainstream language.
Philology - Philology is the humanistic study of historical linguistics, considering both form and meaning in linguistic expression, combining linguistics and literary studies.
Phono-semantic matching - Phono-semantic matching is a linguistic term referring to camouflaged borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word/root.
Suppletion - In linguistics and etymology, suppletion is traditionally understood as the use of one word as the inflected form of another word when the two words are not cognate.
Toponymy - Toponymy is the scientific study of place names, their origins, meanings, use and typology.
Wörter und Sachen - Wörter und Sachen was a philological movement of the early 20th Century, based largely in Germany and Austria.
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Online Etymology
Dictionary— A site created by one person (Douglas Harper) using multiple etymological references, often with anecdotal information. (There is a Wikipedia article about the Online Etymology Dictionary.)
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Merriam-Webster
Dictionary— A full-scale dictionary with traditional etymologies traced usually no further than Latin.
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An Anglo-Saxon
Dictionary— The largest dictionary covering the earliest stages of the English language.
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Double-Tongued
Dictionary— A dictionary featuring dated citations.
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Behind the
Name— Database of the history and etymology of names in dozens of languages.
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