etymologist
etymologist noun: a lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
Noun
etymologist (plural etymologists)
- A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- 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.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53
etymologist meaning in Tamil and Punjabi
etymologist in Tamil
- சொற்பிறப்பியலாளர், சொற்தோற்றவியலாளர்
etymologist in Punjabi
- etymologist
- ਨਿਰੁਕਤੀਕਾਰ niruktīkār
Forms of etymologist
| plural | etymologists |
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Origin of etymologist
From etymology + -ist. By surface analysis, etymo- + -logist.
Words formed from etymologist
Questions about etymologist
- What does etymologist mean?
- Etymologist means a lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- What is etymologist in Tamil?
- Etymologist in Tamil is சொற்பிறப்பியலாளர், சொற்தோற்றவியலாளர். See Etymologist meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is etymologist?
- Etymologist is a noun.
- What is the plural of etymologist?
- The plural of etymologist is etymologists.
Words near etymologist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: etymologist (page history and authors); etymologist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਨਿਰੁਕਤੀਕਾਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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