etimoloģija

Via some other European language, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología), from ἔτυμον (étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία (-logía, “study of”) (from λόγος (lógos)).

etimoloģija f (4th declension)

1. (linguistics, chiefly singular) etymology (science that studies the origins of words and morphemes).

   speciālists etimoloģijā ― a specialist in etymology

   latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca ― Latvian etymological dictionary

2. (linguistics) etymology (the origin and historical development of a specific word or morpheme)

   pētīt, izskaidrot vārda etimoloģiju ― to investigate, to explain the etymology of a word

• etimoloģisks
• etimologs, etimoloģe