語源 — meaning in English

English meaning

• ancestor noun A person from whom one is descended, further back than a grandparent; a forebear.
• etymology noun The origin and history of a word, including the earlier forms and languages it came from and how its meaning has shifted.

Senses

語源 is used for these senses in English:

• ancestor (linguistics) A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
• etymology (countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

ancestor — full definition

1. noun A person from whom one is descended, further back than a grandparent; a forebear.
2. noun An earlier version or form of something that later developed into its modern form.

etymology — full definition

1. noun The origin and history of a word, including the earlier forms and languages it came from and how its meaning has shifted.
2. noun The branch of linguistics that studies where words come from and how they change over time.

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