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• n  a history of a word
• n  the study of the sources and development of words

• The dignity level plummeted from there and bottomed out in a panel-wide squabble over the etymology of 'scumbag'.
• In addition to all those words with a common etymology, the ranks of German words that are easily recognizable have been swelled by hundreds of borrowings.
• Eco-anxiety is not new - the etymology website WordSpy found it mentioned in a 1990 Washington Post article - but it's only now becoming widespread.

News & Articles

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• Why you feel bad about money: Ostrogoths.
  If you ever feel bad about money, well, you should—at least as far as its etymology is concerned. Debt, unmet obligations, war, bloodshed, and sin have been woven into our ideas about money since the very ...
  June 7, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance
• Why you feel bad about money: Ostrogoths.
  If you ever feel bad about money, well, you should—at least as far as its etymology is concerned. Debt, unmet obligations, war, bloodshed, and sin have been woven into our ideas about money since the very ...
  June 7, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• David Stern in Boston Globe
  I know it was unique,NBA commissioner David Stern said about the fine. "You can check the gesture and you can check what it's usually compared to. Our guys made their decision. I'm not into the etymology of gestures."
• George Grove in Bolingbrook Sun
  I can be a scathing type of guy without getting personal,Grove said. "Take the etymology of the word 'politics' -- poly means many, and, of course, ticks are blood-sucking insects."
• Sir Robert Menzies in The Australian
  And Menzies said: "We have been human, with a sense of human destiny and human responsibility. As the etymology of our name 'Liberal' indicates, we have stood for freedom."