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Noun etymology has 2 senses
  1. etymology - a history of a word
    --1 is a kind of     history, account, chronicle, story
    --1 has particulars: folk etymology
    Derived forms: verb etymologize1, verb etymologize2
  2. etymology - the study of the sources and development of words
    --2 is a kind of     linguistics
    --2 has particulars: lexicostatistics
    Derived forms: verb etymologize1, verb etymologize2
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