Example sentences for: etymologically

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

  • 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.

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

  • The exception was the Oxford English Dictionary , which listed four obsolete variants, including ornary which, as it turns out, is the most etymologically logical.

  • The family names are not listed as in a telephone directory, merely in alphabetical order, with no articulation between one entry and the next: rather, if names are etymologically related to one another, they are all listed under the same entry.

  • 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.


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