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Etymology is the study of:
a. language
b. plants
c. animals
d. words

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D. Words.

Is it mainly the origin and history behind the words.

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Answer: d. words

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The etymology is the study of history of words. More elaborately it can be define as the means of origin of a particular word. It recognizes a fact that a word has come from a limited basic mechanisms, the changes occurring in a language, and borrowing of a particular word from a different linguistic set.

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