DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaetymology
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaWhitney (1875)
TitoloThe Life and Growth of language
Sinonimi 
Rinviiname-making (inglese) 
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The whole process of linguistic research begins in and depends upon etymology, the tracing out of the history of individual words and elements. From words the investigation rises higher, to classes, to parts of speech, to whole languages.
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 312-313