Example sentences for: etymologically

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

  • Here is Skeat fuming at a correspondent who had the gall to suggest that the origin of the Ox - in Oxford , long a bone of etymological contention, could be traced through Usk to a connection with Gaelic uisque `water,' as in uisquebaugh literally `water of life,' from which we get whiskey (etymologically speaking):

  • \], because it is etymologically related to the verb to break.

  • 150] that the simplified spellings advocated by Webster “would probably have happened anyway”--they didn't happen “anyway” in Britain, where, despite the fact that many of the forms cannot be justified etymologically or any other way, the conservatives continue to heap scorn on American spelling.

  • While these Germans are clearly of French origin, Eiffel and possibly Mitterand would appear to be etymologically German.

  • This rule is well known to traditional compositors, though, curiously, it does not extend to Angle or Anglo (as in Anglo-Saxon ) though they are all linked etymologically.


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