Etymologist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a lexicographer who specializes in etymology wordnet
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From etymology + -ist.