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
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
“I make it sound very scholarly,” says Merriam etymologist Jim Rader, a onetime Slavic linguistics graduate student who writes the historical notes.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2015
He’s just enough of an etymologist to notice that “beheading” is both a noun and a verb.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2010
I am not enough of an etymologist to give you the root of the word "noise."
From Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 by Various
