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Etymological Method Explained

This method traces the development and transmission of a word's meaning from its earliest recorded occurrence by analyzing its components, identifying related words in other languages, and tracing it back to an ancestral language. It focuses only on how a word's meaning changed from its original form over time. This etymological post method was used by Augustine to study the history of words.

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Etymological Method Explained

This method traces the development and transmission of a word's meaning from its earliest recorded occurrence by analyzing its components, identifying related words in other languages, and tracing it back to an ancestral language. It focuses only on how a word's meaning changed from its original form over time. This etymological post method was used by Augustine to study the history of words.

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Etymological (Post) Method

o Webster defines it as 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
o With this method, we are only concerned with a word’s later development of
meanings from the original meaning.
o It was used by Augustine

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