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Etymology is the study of the history of words. It is what links our current language to past in a visceral way. It is comprised of things like word trees.
And has explanations why many words sound the same but are completely different like the word "well."
First you have well which you pull water from and then the meaning of well such as good. These derived from two similar sounding yet separate words in Old English which in itself is a derived from mainland Europe.
Even the word Etymology itself has a history.
It is an exploration into our collective past and a fascinating branch of history.
And has explanations why many words sound the same but are completely different like the word "well."
First you have well which you pull water from and then the meaning of well such as good. These derived from two similar sounding yet separate words in Old English which in itself is a derived from mainland Europe.
Even the word Etymology itself has a history.
The word "etymology" (/ɛtɨˈmɒlədʒi/) derives from Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumologíā); from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning "true sense", and -λογία (-logía), meaning "study"; from λόγος (lógos), meaning "speech, account, reason."[1] The Greek poet Pindar (born in approximately 522 BCE) employed creative etymologies to flatter his patrons. Plutarch employed etymologies insecurely based on fancied resemblances in sounds. Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae was an encyclopedic tracing of "first things" that remained uncritically in use in Europe until the sixteenth century. Etymologicum genuinum is a grammatical encyclopedia edited at Constantinople in the ninth century, one of several similar Byzantine works. The fourteenth-century Legenda Aurea begins each vita of a saint with a fanciful excursus in the form of an etymology.
It is an exploration into our collective past and a fascinating branch of history.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Dammit, you cruised right into his trap.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
As thought it were against his will...
:^: Great professor. I love lmgtfy.