Example sentences for: etymologies

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

  • Nor do the etymologies in Duden and Langenscheidt . If my memory is reliable, Jerome was rhapsodizing about the experiences of three friends on a footloose bicycle tour.

  • And the German Lambert, though unworthy of a biographical entry of his own in the four Anglophone dictionaries, is remembered nevertheless in their etymologies of the scientific unit, the lambert, that bears his name.

  • One might think, given the emphasis on encyclopedic information, that etymologies of place names would be included, but they are not.

  • Aboriginal etymologies are now mostly settled, the historical and geographical evidence of a word's early use being brought collectively to bear as in the case of kangaroo .

  • Etymologies are provided for a small proportion of entries.


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