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How to use etymology in a sentence

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This name is placed amongst the exotic surnames because no Celtic or Scandinavian etymology appears to be adducible for it.
It should be noted that some scholars do not admit Celtic etymology for the oronym.
Nipperkin is of obscure etymology, though the form suggests Dutch or Low German origins.
I share with Boshoff an interest in etymology, taxonomy and language, but I didn't feel as fascinated by the work in reality as in theory.
Some suggested wildly imaginative similes, while others had questions about word origins and etymology.
Historians and linguists argue about its etymology, but it was possibly used as a folk name referring to northern territories.
His university lectures on etymology and linguistics were standing room only, and he invariably stayed late to answer a barrage of questions.
On the one hand, he is saying that what he considers correct is determined ultimately by usage, not by etymology.
As a consequence of their work, 20th-century etymology is part of historical linguistics.
It is difficult to explain why well-bred people avoid certain words and expressions that are admitted by etymology and grammar.
They care about grammar, syntax, usage, denotation, connotation, etymology.
In addition, trainees will be expected to know the official etymology, derivations, connotations and denotations of the term.
As the meaning of kit was in turn forgotten, the whole compound became opaque, inviting the intervention of folk etymology.
Here we see the workings of the process of linguistic change known as folk etymology.
The latter explanation may, however, simply be a folk etymology or constitute the reason why Albanians identify themselves with the eagle.
I suspect that the spelling was a folk etymology, an eggcorn, that replaced the unfamiliar element linch with the familiar word lynch.
Whether Stukeley followed a local, popular etymology, or indeed created one, it is true that Martinshal was a site for autumnal gatherings.
Panini's grammar, the science of pronunciation, etymology, Indology and Yoga were all included in the curricula.
Some letters and combinations of letters depend in their orthoepy upon the etymology of the word.
Lynch has decided to give entire entries, that is, the headword, part of speech, etymology, definitions and quotations.
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In neither word has the prefix Sint any connection with Snde, with which popular etymology commonly connects it.
In the armoury of apologetics etymology has been the most serviceable weapon.
That aroint is equivalent to away, begone, seems to be agreed, though its etymology is uncertain.
Dole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.
I refer not merely, of course, to its etymology, but rather to its spiritual import.
From this mother dialect our English differs less in respect of etymology, than of syntax, idiom, and flexion.
At Queensferry, by a folk etymology, one of the lads wears a coat stuck over with burrs.
We have a bear Callisto in Arcady, where a folk etymology might explain it by stretching a point.
The etymology of this hammercloth, which was simply a covering over the coach-box, seems to have puzzled people considerably.
For a discussion of the etymology, see the New English Dictionary, especially the concluding note with reference to authorities.
The etymology of the word has been given as the Old Swedish VR and VRingar.
According to the popular etymology, the very name of the Nile testifies to its peculiar fertilizing properties.
It is applied to the first great confusion of mankind, to which a popular etymology has traced the name Babel, as if for Balbel.
The popular etymology is valuable as confirming the proposition to place Belili in the pantheon of the lower world.
What does superciliousness imply according to its etymology?
However, seeking answers to these questions takes us directly into a maze of etymology, synonymity, and definition.
At any rate, if the etymology is false, the connotation is true.
The etymology of the name of this mountain chain is in dispute.
Cat language has been reduced to etymology in several tongues.
Why does the meaning of words depart so widely from their etymology?
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