英语的词源是etymology。
例句：
1、The dictionary Etymology Online says blizzard came to mean a severe snow storm during the late 1800s.
2、Bibobox is working on a successor to Little Star, and a series of apps to teach Chinese characters' etymology.
Bibobox正在开发《Little Star》后续产品，以及教授汉字词源的系列应用。
3、If you look at the etymology of the word statistics, it's the science of dealing with data about the state or the community that we live in.
如果你看看统计的词源，它是处理数据的科学，围绕着我们所生活的国家或社区。
4、So what does all this have to do with etymology?
那么这一切与词源有什么关系呢？
5、The Characteristics, etymology and translation of legal terms both in English and Chinese.
英汉法律术语的特点、词源及翻译。
现代英语的主要部分是从下列语系演化而来，次要部分由其他语系演化而来在此不列举，其间伴随着重大历史事件
Indo-European 古印欧语系
Germanic 日耳曼语
West Germanic 西日尔曼语
Anglo-Frisian 盎格鲁-弗里西语
Old English 古英语
English 现代英语（由中世纪英语而来）