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Etymology (/ ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee[ 1 ]) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes. [ 2 ][ 3 ] It is a subfield of historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics, and draws upon comparative semantics, morphology, pragmatics ...
v. t. e. Nirukta (Sanskrit: निरुक्त, IPA: [n̪iɾuktɐ], "explained, interpreted") is one of the six ancient Vedangas, or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism. [1][2][3] Nirukta covers etymology, and is the study concerned with correct interpretation of Sanskrit words in the Vedas. [3]
Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller elements known as phonemes, or distinguishing sounds. Lexicology examines every feature of a word ...
The word thēsauros is of uncertain etymology. [7] [8] [9] Until the 19th century, a thesaurus was any dictionary or encyclopedia, [9] as in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Dictionary of the Latin Language, 1532), and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (Dictionary of the Greek Language, 1572). It was Roget who introduced the meaning "collection of ...
t. e. Philology (from Ancient Greek φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. [1][2][3] Philology is also defined as the study of literary texts and oral ...
Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. [1] It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical linguistics involves several key areas of study, including the reconstruction of ancestral languages ...
Onomastics. Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. [1] An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. A person who studies onomastics is called onomastician.
The word olive comes through the Romance from the Latin olīva, which in turn comes from the archaic Greek elaíwā (ἐλαίϝᾱ). [7] A later Greek word, boútȳron (βούτυρον), [8] becomes Latin butyrum and eventually English butter. A large group of early borrowings, again transmitted first through Latin, then through various ...