Example sentences for: etymological

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

  • But the most interesting method of analyzing Vance's neologisms is by etymological speculation, which falls into roughly five categories that shade into one another like colors in the spectrum.

  • The first is etymological.

  • From his commentary it is clear that Thirty-five, when compiling his glossary, had access to a number of books, including Partridge's Slang To-day and Yesterday and the 1945 edition of The Australian Language . His more expansive glosses focus primarily on lexicographical matters, including some etymological speculation.

  • The editor is grateful to Anatoly Liberman for sharing the entry (and bibliography) for fuck from his magnificent forthcoming etymological dictionary.

  • Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.


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