etymologist
nounEtymology From etymology + -ist.
1
A lexicographer or linguist who specializes in etymology (the origins of words).
- This was the first time that James had met with one of the bogus etymologists common at that period, who believed that the derivation of a word could be solved by finding any foreign word that sounded something like it.1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 53:
- Derived terms
- folk etymologist
- Related terms
- etymon, etymological, etymology, etymologize