Example sentences for: etymologist

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

  • The F Word , the work of the scholar etymologist who is a resident editor in the dictionary department at Random House, proves to be a rare item indeed: a comprehensive, vastly eclectic, tongue-in-cheek serious treatment that has to be the first and last word on this world-class Word.

  • Only an etymologist today would be expected to know of the kite/hawk kinship , and only he is able to see a kite in a spring sky and appreciate it as the hawk it once was.

  • Fitzedward Hall (1825-1901) traced his career as an etymologist to a shipwreck.

  • Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?


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