U speak Greek

Etymology of word Etymology

What U speak Greek does is to try to gather the words that originate from Greek words and find the etymology behind them. Even the word has Greek origin even if in English came from French word etimologia that originated from the Greek word ετυμολογία. Definition of word etymology is :

the history of a linguistic form (such 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

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But what is the etymology of word etymology? It is composed by the Greek word έτυμος (etymos – means true), and λόγος (logos means speaking). So with etymology, you try to find the true meaning of the words

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