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formal information > etymology

Preferred term

etymology  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

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Description

  • study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time
  • the history and origin of a lexical unit (word or phase). In print dictionaries, the etymologies are usually given in abbreviated form, for example, for cabbage from Concise Oxford Dictionary: ME: from OFr. dial. caboche ‘head’, var. of OFr. caboce.

In other languages

  • Etimologjia

    Albanian

  • etimologia

    Basque

  • Этымалогія

    Belarusian

  • Етимология

    Bulgarian

  • etimologia

    Catalan

  • Etimologija

    Croatian

  • etymologie

    Czech

  • etymologi

    Danish

  • oprindelse
  • etymologie

    Dutch

  • etümoloogia

    Estonian

  • päritolu
  • Etymologia

    Finnish

  • étymologie

    French

  • etimoloxía

    Galician

  • Etymologie

    German

  • Wortherkunft
  • ετυμολογία

    Greek

  • אטימולוגיה

    Hebrew

  • etimológia

    Hungarian

  • orðsifjafræði

    Icelandic

  • uppruni orða
  • Sanasaíocht

    Irish

  • etimologia

    Italian

  • Etimoloģija

    Latvian

  • etimologija

    Lithuanian

  • Etymologie

    Luxembourgish

  • Етимологија

    Macedonian

  • etimoloġija

    Maltese

  • etymologi

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • etymologi

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • etymologia

    Polish

  • etimologia

    Portuguese

  • etimologie

    Romanian

  • этимология

    Russian

  • этимологическая информация
  • етимологија

    Serbian

  • etymológia

    Slovak

  • etimologija

    Slovenian

  • etimología

    Spanish

  • etymologi

    Swedish

  • Етимологія

    Ukrainian

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/etymology

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