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Example sentences for: etymological

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Dwelly set out to compile the Gaelic from all earlier dictionaries and was very successful in an encyclopedic effort; but the work would have been more useful had it an English-to-Gaelic section and provided some etymological clues as to meaning.
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.
And everyone has a favorite passage, unusual compound, or offbeat etymological theory to promote.
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 word has no etymological connection to the racial slur, but new Mayor Anthony Williams yielded to the mere appearance of bias instead of defending his staffer.