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A branch of historical linguistics studying the ancestry of the form and meaning of words. It draws on the theory of regular sound change in the development of one language or across languages. (Oxford Paperback Encyclopedia, 1998 )
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dictionaries
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18.01 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS GENERAL
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