history vs etymology

history and etymology both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
etymology	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, etymology is a hyponym of history; that is, etymology is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than history:

history (noun)	etymology (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	the study of the sources and development of words
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge	a history of a word
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future