etymologist

From etymology +‎ -ist.

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etymologist (plural etymologists)

1. A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
   • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53:

     This was the first time that James had met with one of the bogus etymologists common at that period, who believed that the derivation of a word could be solved by finding any foreign word that sounded something like it.

• folk etymologist

• etymon
• etymological
• etymology
• etymologize

Perhaps borrowed from French étymologiste. Equivalent to etymologie +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.ti.moː.loːˈɣɪst/
• Hyphenation: ety‧mo‧lo‧gist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

etymologist m (plural etymologisten)

1. (dated, rare) etymologist [early 18th–mid-20th c.]

   Synonym: etymoloog