Example sentences for: etymologists

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  • There would appear to be no reason why the first of these defining factors cannot be applied equally well to verbs, a boycott and to boycott could be labelled hand-in-hand as eponymous noun and verb (poor Capt. Boycott having been forgotten by everyone except the etymologists and encyclopedists).

  • Some etymologists believe that missa at first denoted the solemn conclusion of a religious service, the words Ite, missa est Go, it is the dismissal being uttered at the end of the ceremony but later applied to the service itself.

  • Festa itself derives from festus which probably, according to etymologists, had the same root as feria fair.

  • The predilection for the flesh of Strombus gigas, the queen conch, by the white Bahamians and their relatives on the Florida Keys is cited by many etymologists in explaining the origin of the appellation Conch for a `native or inhabitant of the Florida Keys' or a `Bahamian.

  • Many etymologists believe that endleofon is the Old English form for left after ten, one left over.


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