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单词 etymologist
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etymologistn.

Brit. /ˌɛtᵻˈmɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌɛdəˈmɑlədʒəst/
Forms: 1600s etimoligist, 1600s etimologist, 1600s etymoligist, 1600s– etymologist.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: etymology n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < etymology n. + -ist suffix; compare -logist comb. form. Compare post-classical Latin etymologista (1572 or earlier; c1620 in a British source), Middle French, French étymologiste (1578). Compare also etymologer n.
A person who investigates the origin and history of words; an expert in or student of etymology.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > one who studies
etymologist1604
etymologer1610
derivationist1891
1604 T. Bilson Suruey Christs Sufferings ii. 618 The great and learned Etymologist of the Greeke tongue..giueth this exposition.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xiii. 216 The Greeke Etymologists ridiculously draw it from many other originalls.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 240 This I take but for the imagination of some fond Etymologist.
1747 S. Johnson Plan Dict. 15 In exhibiting the descent of our language, our etymologists seem to have been too lavish of their learning.
1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. ii. 50 Chaucer, Gower, and Occleve..are supposed, by the severer etymologists, to have corrupted the purity of the English language.
1844 R. W. Emerson Poet in Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 24 The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar iv. 38 Etymologists could arrive at no conclusion as to the origin of the name.
1909 W. F. Warren Earliest Cosmologies vii. 86 The word [sc. dvīpas] has been explained by Sanskrit etymologists as signifying ‘between waters’.
1957 Life 24 June 15/2 As an amateur etymologist..I feel obliged to set you straight about the word ‘pizazz’.
2007 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 9 Dec. 68 Etymologists debate that the term ‘ketchup’ is a melding of two Cantonese words.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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