Reconsidération étymologique et historique du vocable dialectologie

Etymological and Historical Reconsideration of the French Vocable dialectologie Etimologia prossima of the French prevails in this methodological approach in order to show how the vocable was introduced into the French lexicon. With a modern view on the etymology we can’t just present the etymon but it’s essential to build the historical link between the etymon and the vocable that we describe. First, it’s necessary to consider what the main etymological dictionaries propose (for example FEW and TLF) to reveal what are the gaps for a correct description. So we must give a first attestation. Indeed dictionaries only proposed so far an event marking the field of dialectology but not a first term’s attestation. When we examine the first attestation of the French vocable it’s possible to see that fr. dialectologie is a borrowing from German and not a French creation.