Tech Etymology: a new series about where the field's neologisms come from. As it turns out, there isn't a clear provenance for our first choice.

A new book exploring the origins of common food terms — from bialy to lima bean to bibimbap — is a fascinating history of how we eat and cook.

The latest issue of Cohen’s journal, Comments on Etymology, lays out, in 129 pages, the most solidly supported account yet of the early days of dude. So where does dude come from?

Since starting with a sharp-flavored stab in the dark at the etymology of the phrase "in a pickle," the Eat Your Words column has hummed along pretty nicely and covered a lot of ground, from the ...

And because the Wolof etymology dovetails neatly with existing cultural narratives about the coolness of African-Americans, Hip ’s reviewers—opining for the New York Times and Washington Post ...