etymology

1. The branch of linguistics that deals with etymologies.

2. The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as shown by determining its basic elements, earliest known use, and changes in form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another, identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral form where possible.

3. The history of a (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.

4. A branch of concerned with .

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
etymology	18	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
te	2
me	4
mo	4
my	7
el	2
lo	2
oe	2
om	4
oy	5
to	2
ye	5
em	4
et	2
yo	5
go	3

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
toe	3
tom	5
tog	4
yom	8
meg	6
mel	5
met	5
mog	6
yet	6
moo	5
teg	4
mot	5
too	3
tye	6
tel	3
ole	3
oot	3
mol	5
toy	6
ley	6
goo	4
gey	7
get	4
gem	6
gel	4
got	4
gym	9
leg	4
let	3
log	4
loo	3
lot	3
lye	6
emo	5
elm	5
ego	4

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
tool	4
gley	8
gelt	5
oleo	4
ogle	5
glom	7
tole	4
tome	6
loom	6
toom	6
toyo	7
elmy	9
ylem	9
moot	6
logy	8
loot	4
loto	4
logo	5
loge	5
melt	6
mole	6
molt	6
moly	9
mool	6
mote	6

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
melty	10
metol	7
gooey	9
molto	7
motel	7
motey	10
ology	9
looey	8
gemot	8
gloom	8
golem	8

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
mooley	11
gloomy	12
motley	11

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
myology	16

9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
etymology	18