Etymology = the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
Or to put it simply one relates to the meaning of a word while the other relates to the history of how that word got it's meaning.
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etymology: The history of a word as shown by breaking it down into basic elements or tracing it back to the earliest known form and indicating it's changes in form and meaning. The study of the derivation of words semantics: the study of the meanings of speach forms, the development and changesin meaning of words. The relation between signs or symbles and what they signify. verbal trickery. ( Funk and Wagnalls dictionary )
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