etymologist
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As the etymologist Anatoly Liberman has pointed out, in its earliest forms, haga, hegg and hegge, the word meant “enclosure” or “yard,” especially the residence of a feudal lord.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
In 1934, Allen Walker Read, an etymologist and lexicographer, laid out the history of the word that, then, had “the deepest stigma of any in the language.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2021
John Kelly, an etymologist and senior research editor at Dictionary.com, wrote in a 2017 post on his etymology website, Mashed Radish.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
It’s often impossible to definitively determine a phrase’s linguistic birthplace, but based on the digging of etymologist Barry Popik, the phrase seems to have originated in the graffiti community of Oakland, California.
From Slate
But our etymologist will readily perceive this to be a mere abbreviation, and that they must originally have been known as kittens.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 by Various
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