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Example sentences for: etymology

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This rather pleasing etymology stood for a while but was discredited when R.M.W. Dixon failed to find an etymon in a Queensland language, despite a brave attempt to locate the origin in a putative Jagara word which was glossed as wandering white man.
In any case, the writer seems to have based his case more on etymology than sociology.
' ” Discussion with my gun-loving friends supports Funk's penultimate etymology.
But few proponents of nonsexist language are ignorant of the claims of etymology, of custom, of aesthetics, or even of the inappropriateness of gender-neutral terms in a nongender neutral world.
Etymology, the study of word origins, often interests people otherwise uninterested in language.