What does the etymology of a word tell you? different spellings of the current word
how to pronounce the word
the original word and what it meant
the different forms of the word
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Definition of etymology

1: 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

2: a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies