Etymologer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An etymologist.

    "It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer."

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"It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer."

Etymology

From Latin etymologus + -er.

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