Example sentences for: etymologically

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

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

  • It was the morning of 21 April 1526, the beginning of the empire of the Mughals —  the term used for descendants of Babur as distinct from those of Genghis Khan, who are referred to as “Mongols” even though the terms are etymologically the same.

  • 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.

  • Much of it should be qualified with “unattested,” a term etymologically related to the brass monkey's spheroidal appendages.


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