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Example sentences for: etymological

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However, a two-dollar coin is due to be introduced soon in Canada, and the etymological situation here is a totally different story.
I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.
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.
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.
As surveys have shown that etymological information is the least often sought after, making the average user wade through the etymology before getting to the definition has always seemed pointless and irritating to me; besides, it is unlikely that the serious, consistent seeker of etymological information is likely to use anything but the OED or a major etymological dictionary.