Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To trace and state the etymology of.
- intransitive verb To give or suggest the etymology of a word.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To study etymology or the history of words; search into the origin of words.
- To provide or suggest etymologies for words. How perilous it is to etymologize at random.
- To give the etymology of; trace the etymology of; provide or suggest an etymology for.
- Also spelled
etymologise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
- transitive verb To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb linguistics, transitive, intransitive to find or provide
etymology for a word, to findetymon for a given word
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word)
- verb construct the history of words
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Examples
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Nonetheless, some do try even to loosely etymologize the aforementioned Philistine word in Indo-European terms with no noteworthy success.
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Nonetheless, some do try even to loosely etymologize the aforementioned Philistine word in Indo-European terms with no noteworthy success.
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The basis involves my ability to etymologize the term Chimaira into Etruscan terms.
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Whenever it comes to European vocabulary, specialists of Indo-European languages are in there like a dirty shirt trying to etymologize it automatically through some concocted Indo-European root.
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Taken *collectively* however, reduplication, prothetic a- *and* a-vocalism of the root makes the attempts to etymologize this as a genuine PIE root very painful to me. ;o
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If I were the kind of person to speculate without foundation about the origin of idioms in other words, if I felt competent to folk-etymologize with abandon I would say that perhaps it comes from the notion that a big full skirt and big round cheese might have some topological symmetry.
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If I were the kind of person to speculate without foundation about the origin of idioms in other words, if I felt competent to folk-etymologize with abandon I would say that perhaps it comes from the notion that a big full skirt and big round cheese might have some topological symmetry.
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Alas, the same Teutonic root almost certainly accounts for harbor, thereby putting paid to George Borrow's attempt to folk-etymologize that word to the Welsh/Gaelic aber ` riverine estuary or confluence. '
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And I'm not saying to offend you, but to question a) why do you insist to defend such erroneous claims? and b) why do you etymologize the words of a language you haven't studied?
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