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This chapter gives an overview of what etymology is, what etymology engages in and what issues are under debate.
28 wrz 2017 · The meaning "diligent scientific inquiry and investigation directed to the discovery of some fact" is attested by 1630s.... Persephone De Vaan writes that "The name was always considered obscure" until a thorough investigation published in 2006 reported that...
1 mar 2011 · In this article, data, regarding Yenisey inscriptions in S. Gerard Clauson's An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish which was published by Oxford University in 1972, have...
Etymology is the investigation of word histories. It has traditionally been concerned most especially with those word histories in which the racts are not certain, and where a hypothesis has to be constructed to account either for a word's origin or for a stage in its history. That might be a stage in its
25 mar 2020 · Introduction. Historical linguistics is a discipline with strong interdisciplinary connections to sociocultural anthropology, ethnohistory, and archaeology. While the study of language change and...
1 sty 1987 · Iconic elements are generally held to be problematic for the purposes of etymological investigation, for they often show synchronic oddities and behave irregularly from a diachronic standpoint.
Etymologies appeal to people with a very wide variety of and intellectual backgrounds. A very few people, such as myself, spend most their time researching etymologies. A slightly larger number do so very occasionally. Many, many more people look at etymologies, but have never themselves. Some people will never even have thought of ety
