User:Timbenuka/Etymology

According to Noah Webster (1758 - 1843) can also be cited as a prominent member in the field of Etymology. Webster defines this field of study as the study which indicates the derivation of newer words from their predecessors, and that these pioneering words are methodically added onto in trends that can be analyzed and used as a metric - implying that there are rules to the derivation of newer words from their root words. According to the lexicographer, etymology, orthography, syntax, and prosody stood as the four foundations upon which our understanding of grammar is built.Noah Webster then took this understanding and created the American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Thought his contributions to the area of study are not often mentioned today, the ideas he brought to the field of etymology have been analyzed by many in times past.

References:

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=ffbc682cd0a6e9a458a5e47b1dd354ad4f0951b9

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249252371_Using_etymology_in_the_classroom

https://onlineentomology.ifas.ufl.edu/about/entomology-articles/founders-of-entomology-and-nematology/#:~:text=William%20Kirby%20(1759%2D1850),from%20his%20birthplace%20in%20Suffolk.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Noah-Webster-American-lexicographer