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.

  • 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):

  • Although the terms loonie , a diminutive noun from loon , and loony , an adjective (ultimately) from lunar are etymologically distinct, their similarity has encouraged obvious satirical connections: our economy, which is loony, has as its fundamental unit of currency the loonie; many felt that the policies of Brian Mulroney were loony.

  • But a chair is virtually anything for an individual to sit on and cap, etymologically at least, originally meant cape (with a hood) or so the OED has it.

  • Note that the words should be etymologically distinct, so refuse, minute, contract do not qualify.


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