| Every time I poke around in an area like this, I'm amazed by the range of nascent constructional folk etymologies that are out there. |
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| One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems. |
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| The spuriousness of his Hebrew etymologies suggests, but does not prove, that he did not know Hebrew. |
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| The card file to the left of where my father sat has definitions and etymologies of frequently used words, such as pleasure and play. |
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| He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies. |
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| But the eminent Samoan chief and scholar Napoleone Tuiteleleapaga finds none of these etymologies convincing. |
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| They insist that Egyptian etymologies cannot be found for most Greek words, unless all known rules of vocabulary acquisition are disregarded. |
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| I came to think about these words and dig up their etymologies after visiting prospective colleges with my daughter. |
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| The etymologies they traced demonstrate what really happens with words, which is not what certain grammarians, structural theorists and purists assert. |
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| On the other hand, the etymologies of very many words are still disputed. |
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| I believe that some of the etymologies need more consideration. |
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| To do this, I'm going to put aside all debates about definitions, etymologies, and recipes, and point to things we can prove. |
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| Other odd spellings were intended to keep etymologies clear: a b was inserted into debt to show the link with Latin debitum. |
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| The following table shows a selection of nouns from the Swadesh list and indicates their pronunciations and etymologies. |
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| However, other Norse etymologies have also been suggested for the source of the island's name. |
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| Writers and historians have suggested several other possible etymologies, including postulated French and African origins. |
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| Resembling the moose he describes, Thoreau meandered through lexicons, munching etymologies like some great verbivorous animal. |
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| Blazek's Uralic etymologies, but it seems to have influenced more seriously the Altaic than the Uralic part of the book. |
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| Similarly, the Latinism and etymologies at the head of each item in the brief urinary imply a learned professional context. |
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| It also provides new metaphors, figures of speech, reasoning modes, etymologies, analogies, and cosmogonies. |
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| In addition to its basic function of defining words, a dictionary may provide information about their pronunciation, grammatical forms and functions, etymologies, syntactic peculiarities, variant spellings, and antonyms. |
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| For a list of street name etymologies for Westminster see Street names of Westminster. |
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| This hypercorrection derives from his not actually reading the etymologies that he copies. |
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| He is no longer a seer, but a witness of the Word in action and on the march, today and forever.10 As the Hebrew and Greek etymologies suggest, he is an announcer of good news, an evangelist. |
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| Alternative etymologies are supported with the numerous orthographic variations in Medieval documents with Samuel Seyer enumerating 47 alternative forms. |
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| Mahn, who replaced unsupportable etymologies which were based on Webster's attempt to conform to Biblical interpretations of the history of language. |
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| At the same time, the Stoics and the Neoplatonists promoted the moral significations of the mythological tradition, often based on Greek etymologies. |
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| Various etymologies have been proposed, including Ruotsi, the Finnish designation for Sweden, and Ros, a tribe from the middle Dnieper valley region. |
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| Although modern archaeological excavations show a Phoenician presence at this location since 1200 BC, neither of these folk etymologies has any historical credibility. |
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| A number of etymologies have been proposed but none very well accepted. |
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