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- verb Present participle of
etymologise .
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Examples
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Under these circumstances it is not impossible, I think, that the earlier legend of the marvellous run of "Cylart" from Carnarvon was due to the etymologising fancy of some English-speaking Welshman who interpreted the name as Killhart, so that the simpler legend would be only a folk-etymology.
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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The difference is incalculable; not that Mannhardt always abstains from etymologising.
Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878
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