Danish

Noun

etymologi c (singular definite etymologien, plural indefinite etymologier)

1. etymology

Declension

Related terms

• etymolog
• etymologisk

References

• “etymologi” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία ‎(etumología), from ἔτυμον ‎(étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία ‎(-logía, “study of”), from λόγος ‎(lógos).

Noun

etymologi m ‎(definite singular etymologien, indefinite plural etymologier, definite plural etymologiene)

1. etymology (study of the historical development of languages, particularly of individual words)

Derived terms

• etymolog
• etymologisere
• etymologisk

References

• “etymologi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “etymologi” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία ‎(etumología), from ἔτυμον ‎(étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία ‎(-logía, “study of”), from λόγος ‎(lógos).

Noun

etymologi m ‎(definite singular etymologien, indefinite plural etymologiar, definite plural etymologiane)

1. etymology (as above)

Derived terms

• etymolog
• etymologisere
• etymologisk

References

• “etymologi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French ethimologie, from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία ‎(etumología), from ἔτυμον ‎(étumon, “true sense”) and -λογία ‎(-logía, “study of”), from λόγος ‎(lógos).

Noun

etymologi c

1. etymology (study of the history of words, a branch of linguistics)
2. an etymology (the history of a word)

Declension

Related terms

• etymolog
• etymologisera
• etymologisk

References

• etymologi in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)