Verb:
give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology for a word;The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly
Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing
construct the history of wordsetymolog-ize使成为⇒v.探溯语源⁶⁰;研究语源⁴⁰近义词 etymologise追溯字的语源…