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.
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Etymologist
Synonyms for "etymologist" (6 found)
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9 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ստուգաբան noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Belarusian
1 entries- этымо́лаг noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Bulgarian
1 entries- етимолог noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Catalan
3 entries- etimologista noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimòleg noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimòloga noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 詞源學家 /词源学家 noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Czech
1 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Danish
1 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Finnish
1 entries- etymologi noun (person who specializes in etymology)
French
1 entries- étymologiste noun (person who specializes in etymology)
German
1 entries- Etymologe noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Greek
1 entries- ετυμολόγος noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Hungarian
1 entries- etimológus noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Icelandic
1 entries- orðsifjafræðingur noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Italian
3 entries- etimologa noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimologista noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimologo noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Korean
1 entries- 어원학자 noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Latvian
2 entries- etimologs noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimoloģe noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Macedonian
1 entries- етимолог noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Manx
1 entries- bun-ockleyder noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- etîmolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Polish
2 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etymolożka noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Portuguese
2 entries- etimologista noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimólogo noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Romanian
2 entries- etimolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimologist noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Russian
1 entries- этимо́лог noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- etimòlog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Slovak
2 entries- etymologička noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etymológ noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Slovene
2 entries- etimolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimologinja noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Spanish
2 entries- etimologista noun (person who specializes in etymology)
- etimólogo noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Swedish
1 entries- etymolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Turkish
1 entries- etimolog noun (person who specializes in etymology)
Ukrainian
1 entries- етимо́лог noun (person who specializes in etymology)
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