etymology• One form of this is called folketymology.• His account of their arrival and his etymology for their name can not be trusted.• It is also rather odd, in that no etymology of it is known.• The guidingprinciples then of etymology and precedent would not be acceptabletoday.• One might wish to replace the obsolete name of a country or language with the modern name in every definition or etymology.• Looking at it another way it is perhaps a neatcoupling of the word's etymology.• He has done his damnedest to supply the etymologies whenever he can, and they all ring true.• The flesh and bones of words rose again to the salvation of their etymologies.
Originetymology
(1300-1400)Latinetymologia, from Greek, from etymon“original meaning”, from etymos“true”