From: Brian M. Scott Message: 56624 Date: 2008-04-04
At 11:27:29 PM on Thursday, April 3, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:
[...]
> Etymology is the science of connecting form and meaning
> through transformations.
No. Etymology is the study of word histories, including the
identification of cognates and reconstruction of ancestral
forms -- in short, the study of etymologies.
Brian
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