Philology

Noun

 * 1)  The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

Derived terms

 * philologer
 * philologist

Thesaurus
bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, paleography, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, semantics, sociolinguistics, structuralism, syntactics, transformational linguistics

Etymology
First coined 1614, from philologie: <  φιλολογία: < φίλος: + λόγος:.

Translations

 * Catalan: filologia
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Icelandic: textafræði
 * Interlingua: philologia
 * Irish: focleolaíocht


 * Italian:
 * Old French:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: филология
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: filoloji,