Example sentences for: etymological

How can you use “etymological” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Etymological Spelling

  • It included almost all of the important uses of the word, and the introduction gave a good picture of the word's history, both etymological and social.

  • The Celtic names grug and fraoch apparently come from Old Celtic v-roikos , which is cognate (or so says Klein's Etymological Dictionary ) with Latin brucus , meaning `maned or bristled.

  • The coverage is a bit loose, but no one is likely to consider earring an anatomical term, and forelock, a small iron wedge of pin driven through a hole or slot at the end of a sheave-pin to prevent it from working out, contains a - lock from a door, not from a forehead, which has a different etymological origin.

  • On the question of empathy versus sympathy , I am not competent to comment, except on their etymological and semantic distinctions.


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