What is the etymology of detrimental?

The etymology of etymology is from the greek etumologia which means "true sense of a word"

Etymology is the study of words and their origins and development.

It's from the ancient Greek. Homeo/homo means 'the same'. Like homosexual is liking the same sex. Stasis means keeping still. Like stationary, static etc. So homeostasis is keeping everything...

People, as sense of populace, domestic population from late 13th. century, "humans, persons in general," from Anglo-French people, Old French peupel, from Latin populus "people"

Many fanciful derivations for okay abound. Most likely, okay comes from the Gullah word okeh. "Most likely"No, not most likely. Possible - but rather unlikely.Most likely is that it came from a...