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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The study of linguistic change over time in language or in a particular language or language family, sometimes including the reconstruction of unattested forms of earlier stages of a language. Also called philology.

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  1. n. linguistics The scientific study of language change.

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  1. n. the study of linguistic change

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  1. diachronic linguistics

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  1. linguistics

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  1. Saussure
  2. de saussure
  1. ferdinand de saussure
  2. philology
  1. deriving
  2. etymologizing
  1. derivation
  2. TCPUD's
  1. shift
  2. descriptive
  1. doublet
  2. primitive

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  1. centum
  1. satem

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