Etymology is the study of the origin of words and how the meaning of words has changed over the course of history. Let’s get meta and take the word
etymology as an example. Etymologyderives from the Greek word etumos, meaning true. Etumologia was the study of words’ true meanings. This evolved into etymology by way of the Old French ethimologie. That’s all fairly straightforward, but there are many, many words in the English language that have unexpected and fascinating origins. Here are a few such examples.
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/an-introduction-to-etymology-eight-great-word-origins
