Etymology in a sentence as a noun

‘Leader’ and „Leiter” share the same etymology, „Führer” does not.

That is folk etymology, it has nothing to do with slavery.

The word now has such bad connotations that we forget its etymology, though it's staring us in the face.

Second, by deciding how much to bring in of the historic origin or etymology of a word.

" The etymology of the word means, literally, "start up [business]".

The most common etymology is that the name was a marketing ploy to convince settlers to come to a hostile and bitterly cold land.

The etymology of 'skit' is directly related to ****, science, scissors and the verb shed -- all from a proto-Indo-European word meaning to separate.

Defining a word strictly and pedantically is showing off by demonstrating that you know more about a word's etymology and usage than someone else.

Etymology definitions

noun

a history of a word

noun

the study of the sources and development of words