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Example sentences for: etymologies

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In many entries, the etymologies are far more replete: that for barb covers twelve lines of text.
We like etymologies because they tell us stories.
These etymologies rise out of the gray area of word derivation that employs educated guessing and cultivated Sprachgefühl.
So we need a word for outdated etymologies.
The OED , for example, has very long and elaborate etymologies, some of which might have been superseded (presumably in OED2e ), which means you have to have the latest edition.