محک

Etymology

The main objective of the Morphology Courses is to familiarize the students with the Etymological aspects of the English words and discriminate between the words. To achieve this objective, the students should master over an exhaustive set of word elements such as Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes and their combining forms through the semantic features of the words.

Etymology (/ˌɛt.ɪˈmɒl.ə.dʒi/) is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.

By extension, the term “the etymology (of a word)” means the origin of the particular word.

For a language such as Greek with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods of their history and when they entered the languages in question.

Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information to be available.

By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family.

Even though etymological research originally grew from the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

The word etymology derives from the Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumología), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning “true sense”, and the suffix -logia, denoting “the study of”.

In linguistics, the term etymon refers to a word or morpheme (e.g., stem or root) from which a later word derives. For example, the Latin word candidus, which means “white”, is the etymon of English candid.

Copyright @2017, Amoukhteh. All rights reserved.

Design and Programming: Hampatech