I was thinking about where words come from and about etymologies and then I suddenly realised that I did not in fact, know the etymology of the word etymology, and whilst thinking about it came to a sudden stop as the paradoxes that I spend my time thinking about swept up and engulfed me and I began to believe that etymology could not have an etymology but would have had something different as etymology would not have existed unless it had an etymology...and so on and so forth around and around in my head...(almost as troubling to me as the time travel change that occurred before travelling in time...but best leave that for another day...)
Anyway, back to my point...do any of you know the etymology for etymology and whether there was a different word in use before it appeared?

----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false----