Possible Clues:

• Study of word origins
• Study of words
• Study of the develop­ment of words
• The history of a word
• History of a word
• Study of the origins of words
• Confused? Go to Ely, my original source
• Study of sources and developments of words
• Varied, yet gloomy, linguistic study
• French joiner's second piece of wood in two years: history in a word!