etymologist

English

Etymology

From etymology +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

etymologist (plural etymologists)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• folk etymologist

Related terms

• etymon
• etymological
• etymology
• etymologize

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)

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)

1. (dated, rare) etymologist [early 18th–mid-20th c.]

   Synonym: etymoloog