Example sentences for: etymologists

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  • 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.

  • (In this article, Hindi is used to cover loanwords which etymologists attribute to either Hindi or Urdu.

  • Some of the words in my sampling may or may not be Hindi loanwords; that is, etymologists are uncertain whether they are properly attributable to Hindi or some other language of the subcontinent.

  • 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.

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


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