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Example sentences for: etymological

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The notice that a nation other than France could produce an effervescent wine and then have the audacity to label it champagne was the basis for a lawsuit rather than an etymological inquiry.
As a lover of Yiddish, I hate to see its influence ignored in such a lengthy etymological review.
I cannot crawl into the minds of the youngest generation of psychologists to learn whether exceptional still carries what I must regard, personally, to be the unconscionable semantic distortion, both denotative and connotative, introduced a generation ago using “etymological” grounds for justification.
Interdicted are burly “too often associated with large black men” (large, yes; black, no), fried chicken “often used to refer to the cuisine of black people” (something that customers of Colonel Sanders might well dispute), gyp “because it insults gypsies” (only for those who are aware of the etymological nuances of the language), go Dutch insults “citizens of the Netherlands” (what utter balderdash !), Ugh!
Oxford just throws up its hands and cries “Derivation unknown,” adding, “None of the etymological conjectures hitherto offered are compatible with the sense-history.”