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He isolates his ultimate etym – Zeta – storms heaven (several times); dates a girl made of unsplinterable glass (she breaks up with him); not to mention becoming nigh invulnerable himself.

Leavin’ on a Jet Plane Links « Gerry Canavan 2007

Yes, age-old liturgy beholds Christ reigning as King in His basilica etym.: "the king's house", upon the altar as His throne.

Feast of Christ the King Argent 2006

So just as in an English etym dict you get first other Germanic forms, then related forms from other IE branches and a reconstructed PIE root, in an Arabic one you'd get Ethiopian and Arabian forms, then other Semitic forms, and finally the more distant Afroasiatic forms and a reconstruction if such is possible.

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

One of the points of an etym dict is to tell you what words have no known etymology.

languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY. 2004

I can't quote it precisely, but roughly it goes, 'The abnihilisation of the etym expolodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble fragorom-boassity amidwhiches general uttermosts confussion are perceivable moletons skaping with mulicules.'

Spock Must Die Blish, James 1970

Mr. Earwicker's worldly misfortunes are climaxed by a lethal explosion: "the abnihilisation of the etym."

James Joyce 1946

Moniplies (also for sense of "behoved"): "Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthen pot -- etym. dub.), as he said 'just to put my Scotch ointment in'; and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them."

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

Moniplies (also for sense of 'behoved'): 'Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthern pot -- etym. dub.), as he said "just to put my Scotch ointment in;" and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them.'

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

Cf. Liddell and Linwood, s.v. The interpretation and derivation of the etym. magn.

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

The development > calypso is through corruption (through folk etym) by English writers in the 1930s, influenced by the name (Calypso) of the amorous island nymph of Greek mythology, plus an anglicized shift in pitch pattern / 1'12 / >

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